Farmstead: is it profitable?

Socio-economic changes in the GDL led to agrarian reform in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Passed "Wave Reform" under the leadership of Sigismund II Augustus, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland. The number of the population in cities increased every year, thus the demand for agricultural products grew. At the same time, the price and consumption of bread in Western Europe increased.

Feudal lords received favorable offers for the supply of grain abroad. In order to increase the production of products on their lands, the feudal lords gave the land to the peasants, and such a plot of land as the "farm" was called. This was done for the convenience of the feudal lords. All that was grown in the farm, later sold abroad or residents of the city.

Word meaning in dictionaries

Farms-farms began to appear in the XV century. Peasants had the opportunity to work on these lands corvee and give a quitrent, sowing a farm. The meaning of the word can be found in historical and literary dictionaries, but the most striking and correct are the following.

• Folvark - a landowner's economy, a small estate (in the regions of Poland, Western Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania). The definition is taken from the "Dictionary of Foreign Words".
• In Ushakov's dictionary "farm" is a small manor.

• In Wikipedia, you can also find a definition. The folwark (Polish folwark from the dialecticism of the German Vorwerk) is a manor house, a farmstead, an isolated settlement run by one owner, a landowner's household.

History of origin

In 1557, a well-known document was adopted - the "Charter for Dragging", which aims at bringing more money from agriculture to the treasury. In this document, a farm is a form of farming, where peasants worked off duties. The beginning of the changes in the agricultural business was Queen Bon Sforza. She also began to change the management of cases in Pinsk and Kobrinskoe villages. In these areas, everything went on at the highest level, and the land was shared on farms in many other places, except for the east of Belarus.

Peasants and farmers

As already noted, the farm is the possession of feudal lords. Peasants were not masters of the land, they only processed it and harvested crops. But the szlachta and tycoons legalized the right to use the land. For the peasants to get land, it was necessary to bow to the magnates, and then they would give the whole crop to them. There were drafty and siege peasants. The draftsmen simply practiced corvée, and the sieges still paid the money tax.