Growing Crops In Rows

Growing crops in rows, may seem to you to be obvious and necessary process. But they were not practiced in western world until the eighteenth century. The Chinese were doing this at least by the sixth century BC, which are about 2200 years in advance of  the West in one of the most sensible aspects of agriculture. One of the evidence was the Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals

 It tells us:
'If the crops are grown in rows they will mature rapidly because they will not interfere with each other's growth. The horizontal rows must be well drawn, the vertical rows made with  skill, for if the lines are straight the wind will pass gently through.'