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The use of human power in agriculture continues to be important, but, above all in the past, both animal and human power had a decisive impact on the way of working and on the crops until the introduction of modern machinery. As indicated in the San Martín de Unx (N) field research, the initial power source came from humans, who oversaw and triggered other instrumental sources, such as animal or mechanical, from the manual to motorised tools.
=== Shared work of the family ===
Information was gathered in Abezia (A) that can be applied to the rural world as a whole. 0} It was standard practice at all the farmsteads for all members of the family, from children to the elderly, to be involved in the livestock and farming work. In Moreda (A), parents and children, and occasionally the grandparents, would usually run an agricultural holding.
The same point about the participation of all the members of the family – men, women and children – in the farming tasks was raised in Berganzo, Treviño and La Puebla de Arganzón (A); Ajangiz, Ajuria, Bedarona, Gautegiz Arteaga, Nabarniz, Urduliz, (B); Hondarribia (G); Izurdiaga, Valle de Roncal (Ustárroz, Isaba y Urzainqui) (N) and Donazaharre (BN). In Beasain (G), they reported that in general everyone living in the household had chores to do there and they stressed that even those who were employed in workshops outside the home.
Animal power in farming is a thing of the past and has been replaced by tractors, initially simple ones and then larger vehicles, which began to make their mark in the 1970s, first in the cereal-growing areas in the south of the territory and later on the Atlantic side of the watershed.
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