National Open Farm Day 2023: Date, History, Facts about Farming

National Open Farm Day is observed annually on the first Monday of May. This year, the holiday is observed on May 1. A collaboration between the Ministry of Agriculture, the Rural Economy Research Centre, and Jarvamaa Avatud Talud produced the National Open Farm Day. The purpose of Open Farm Day is to educate the public about where their food comes from and how it reaches their dishes daily. Visitors investigate large and small farms, agricultural technologies, and a variety of animals and plants on this day.

The background of National Open Farm Day

Throughout human history, agriculture has been reinvented numerous times and in numerous locations. Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch, the Neolithic Revolution marked the transition from a hunter-gatherer society to an established agricultural society. It was the world’s first agricultural revolution supported by historical evidence. By 4,000 B.C., people in central Europe were using oxen to draw ploughs and waggons. Farming had spread from the Middle East to Europe.

The Columbian exchange, which began with Christopher Columbus’ voyages in 1492, introduced maize, potatoes, and tomatoes to Europe in addition to wheat, rice, and radishes, as well as cattle, which were already present in the Americas. Since 1900, human labour has been displaced by mechanisation, chemicals, and selective breeding in industrialised nations, and to a lesser extent in developing nations. As a result, agriculture productivity has increased dramatically in industrialised nations and to a lesser extent in developing nations.

Between the 17th and mid-19th centuries, agricultural productivity and net output in Britain soared. In 1750, enclosure, mechanisation, four-field crop rotation to retain soil nutrients, and selective breeding enabled an unprecedented population increase of 5.7 million. In the middle of the 17th century, authors such as Samuel Hartlib, Walter Blith, and others began advising English farmers on more profitable agricultural practises.

Both the British agricultural revolution of the 18th century and the green revolution of the second half of the 20th century led to changes in agricultural practises. Between the 1940s and the late 1970s, a series of research, development, and technology transfer activities comprised the green revolution. After the late 1960s, the green revolution increased global agricultural production.

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5 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FARMING

• 30% of the producers of today are women.
• By 2050, farmers will need to produce 70 percent more food to sustain the world’s growing population.
• Agriculture is one of the most significant employment sectors, and it is thriving.
• Agriculture is essential to a nation’s economic development.
• Cotton, sugar, wood, and palm oil are a few of the basic materials that agriculture provides.

NATIONAL OPEN FARM DAY DATES

Year	Date	Day
2022	May 2	Monday
2023	May 1	Monday
2024	May 6	Monday
2025	May 5	Monday
2026	May 4	Monday