My family's farming history

Tweet

My family lives in a village in northern China.When I was a little girl,the family cultivated wheat, barley,cotton,tobacco,corn,and vegetable in plantation.The vegetable includes eggplant,pumpkin,tomato,potato,capsicum, and so on.At that time,no chemical fertilizer,only manure could be used to improve the crop's growth.We bred livestock,such as mule,sheep,goat,rabbit,and pig.We also bred poultry, such as chicken,no duck and goose.The farm need irrigation if the rain is short.After harvest by hand,the grain was stored in barn and granary.After baking,the tobacco was sent to the special factory.The cotton was picked up,then we removed seeds of cotton by machine and stored it.When I was 15 years old,my family start to plant apple tree,and pepper tree in orchard, and stopped cultivating tobacco.We also stopped breeding livestock and poultry.The planting and harvest of wheat and corn are no longer by hand, but by machine, and mature is replaced with chemical fertilizer, which are owing to the technology development.The young people in the village leave their home to search for jobs in the city, but old people and kids are left in the village.This is my family and the surrounding village's farming history.