Inundation canals in Ratibořice

Bringing water to meadows to increase their yield has been known since ancient and medieval times, but hand in hand with new knowledge and inventions, it began to be used on a large scale at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, which is also mentioned in the "Economic Dictionary". Illustrated encyclopedia of all agricultural, horticultural and forestry management, as well as economic industry" from 1909: "In Bohemia they started...