Los papeles de la abundancia : historia del periodismo agropecuario en Colombia (1800 – 1850: El origen)

Abstract

Little o nothing is known about the agricultural journalism in Colombia, because there are no records of his history nor theories to explain their work, despite to exist for more than of two centuries in the country and to contribute in the conformation of a free nation, thanks the message that sublies between his lines, which promises much more that plentiful harvests and that in his beginnings was communicated, with help by church, by men of science, lawyers and landowners, whom had an interest that surpassed the simple desire to write about cultivation of countryside to illiterates that did not cared by to learn, since the customs and needs of this persons were facing with the novelties that the journalists wanted to promote. Thus, in his first fifty years, the Colombian agricultural information, whose origin, characteristics and short life were approached by this research, flourished with dissimulation on just ten newspapers, until that was relegated and almost forgotten, when the industrial revolution converted the farmers into a community of artisans and city workers.