Critiques of the Father Feijoo to the agricultural structures of his time

Abstract

During the Former Regime, the land was monopolized by the Church – fundamentally the monastic orders– and the nobility. His exploitation realized across agrarian transfers to longtime: the absenteeism of the owners was the norm and the direct cultivators they were not enjoying sufficient stimuli to improve his traditional behaviors, of there his massive escape increasing the rows of emigration. Feijoo is going to criticize with hardness this situation proposing a series of radical reforms of the agricultural structures.