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=== Preparing the land ===
The agricultural work is carried out with the help of the tractor to which different machines are attached. The type of tractor used, with different engines and sizes, will depend on the work to be carried out. The most powerful tractor that the farmer owns (and they usually have two or three different tractors) is used for ploughing and which can pull a multi-furrow plough with a double rotating mouldboard. Three- or four- furrow ploughs are usual, although the most powerful tractors can pull five-furrow ploughs.
=== Sowing ===
In the past, when agriculture began to be mechanised, it was more common than today to purchase machinery between different people or groups given the shortage of equipment. Later on, as people began to be better off and also that the machines were needed at the same time, that form of purchasing began to disappear and everyone bought what they needed. It is now common to contract the services needed from people who offer them in return for payment.
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