Thanks so much, Sir.
I appreciate your time and your curiosity about learning different cultures, Flavio.

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At the time it was, the use of fertilizer was not common. Organic fertilizer as it is today was not heard of.

Therefore, people preferred to use manure rather than use inorganic fertilizer which they believed "kills" the land over time.

Also, then there was nothing like mechanized farming. Subsistent farming was the order of the day.

Only the Di Ji's- Notable Yam Farmers- in the class of my late father Dara Olisamara could boast of yams to sell to others at the turn of the next planting season.

Then, for the Umunna land, it was allowed a rest period of ten years without being cultivated at all.

This was to allow the farmland to self-manure itself throughout the rest period.

Considering the level of development in the sixties and seventies the level of environmental degradation was not as bad as it is today.

The Umunna system of sharing and farming their common farmland was in tandem with the time and period it was.
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