by John Maber
It was once slow, expensive and tiring to apply fertiliser on hill country – contract workers would cart heavy bags of fertiliser on horseback and spread it by hand. Fast forward to the 1940s, and the return home of World War Two fighter pilots. Criss-crossing the skies over remote farmland in adapted aircraft, they dropped superphosphate by the hopper load. Farming expanded, and the economy boomed.
Main image: Spreading fertiliser by hand
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