As someone who spent quite a bit of his youth farming: these people are doing it wrong. Hoeing weeds in a field that hasn't even been disced or planted yet? So

As someone who spent quite a bit of his youth farming: these people are doing it wrong. Hoeing weeds in a field that hasn't even been disced or planted yet? Sorting beans by hand? Planting wheat by hand? Fertilizing by hand? Digging ditches by hand? That's some seriously medieval stuff. I'm sure it's traditional, etc, but it's not efficient, and it doesn't scale to large populations. I don't even want to think about what they aren't doing regarding soil chemistry, pest control, etc.