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Large manorial estates or plantations were never viable in Atrassica, and as such most Atrassican agriculture takes place on family farmsteads, or on communally-managed land belonging to block settlements or Movement settlements/settlement towns or native reserves. The family-smallholder basis of Atrassican agriculture intensified during the [[Sunderance]] when the rump Federalist government implemented [[Land reform in Kiravia|a series of land reforms]] that redistributed land to tenant farmers and landless field labourers. In addition, the government resettled some 50,000 refugee farming families displaced from areas occupied by the Kiravian Union, many from [[Koskenkorva]]. The postwar resettlement and reorganisation programme also transferred some land to farms considered too small for efficient operations. | Large manorial estates or plantations were never viable in Atrassica, and as such most Atrassican agriculture takes place on family farmsteads, or on communally-managed land belonging to block settlements or Movement settlements/settlement towns or native reserves. The family-smallholder basis of Atrassican agriculture intensified during the [[Sunderance]] when the rump Federalist government implemented [[Land reform in Kiravia|a series of land reforms]] that redistributed land to tenant farmers and landless field labourers. In addition, the government resettled some 50,000 refugee farming families displaced from areas occupied by the Kiravian Union, many from [[Koskenkorva]]. The postwar resettlement and reorganisation programme also transferred some land to farms considered too small for efficient operations. | ||
The relationship between agriculture and forestry is a close one in Atrassica, representing a transplantation of northern Kiravian agricultural techniques into a new but familiar landscape. In the 1980s AD, the average Atrassican farm comprised twelve hectares of arable land and twenty-five hectares of forest, and 8-15% of most farming households' incomes was derived from foresting activities. Many farmers in the colony engage in {{wp|silviculture}} or {{wp|silvopasture}}, and some Movement Settlements are centred on the preservation of traditional {{wp|forest gardening}} and similar activities important to the ethnic heritage of their members. | The relationship between agriculture and forestry is a close one in Atrassica, representing a transplantation of northern Kiravian agricultural techniques into a new but familiar landscape. In the 1980s AD, the average Atrassican farm comprised twelve hectares of arable land and twenty-five hectares of forest, and 8-15% of most farming households' incomes was derived from foresting activities. Many farmers in the colony engage in {{wp|silviculture}} or {{wp|silvopasture}}, and some Movement Settlements are centred on the preservation of traditional {{wp|forest gardening}} and similar activities important to the ethnic heritage of their members. The cultivation of {{wp|sugar maple}} and the production of {{wp|maple syrup}} are of great importance and provide one of the colony's most valuable export goods. | ||
===Industry=== | ===Industry=== | ||