Question: Immigration to Denmark in 16th century

Valdemar II

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I was thinking about how we would get new farming methods early to Denmark, and one of them was immigration of Netherlanders in the early 17th century, by that time both the Spanish clover and potatoes was cultivated in Netherland, beside that their draining tectics would also be useful. Of course we would need a place which lend it self well to Nederlandish farming. And I think I found the perfect place Lolland-Falster:
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It is flat, calciumrich, sandy with lots of wetland, it would be like home for the Netherlanders.
In the the periode from 1594-1631 it was ruled by dowagerqueen Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, she seem like a person which could have seen the oppotunity in develop her personal domain. So is it realistic that she invites a few hundreds Netherlanders to her domain around 1600 against giving them some tax exception and free land, and that she begin draining project of the wetlands in her domain?
 
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Were Dutch farming methods that much more advanced than those of the Danish? How hard would it really be to develop that expertise? I would assume that if draining Danish wetlands was practicable technologically in that time period, it would have been done - if there was any reason to.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Were Dutch farming methods that much more advanced than those of the Danish? How hard would it really be to develop that expertise? I would assume that if draining Danish wetlands was practicable technologically in that time period, it would have been done - if there was any reason to.

The Dutch farming methods was much more efficient than the Danish ones, not in the tools used, which was more or less the same, but in the fallowing methods used and the plants cultivated, the Dutch at the time used both Spanish clover, which was one of the primary sources of the Danish agricultural boom of the 18th century, and potatoes which helped continued it into the 19th century. With this POD I import both plants into Denmark and the expertise to cultivate them 150 years earlier, while it's unlikely in the start that potatoes will be used as anything other than cattle and pig feed (as it were in Denmark in the 18th century), it's a lot easier to get the plant adopted as human food in the 17th century than in the 18th century, with the population collapse of 1658-1660.

To draining method Denmark lacked the expertise and the independent capital to drain large areas in that periode, but there's no doubt that the Dutch had it. I used Lolland-Falster because it's one of the easiest places to drain and build dikes, and Sophie had the capital to make it possible, while these methods won't spread to the rest of the country as fast as the new farming methods (in OTL the use of Spanish clover spread to the whole country in 60 years, from the first use inside the Denmarks borders), it will give Denmark a native expertise and know-how on the area, which will help when Denmark will hit the population bottleneck in the middle of the 18th century, as result of the bigger growth. For a reason to do so, it will give extra land of better quality (drained areas tend to have better soil qualities, which is one of reason to Hollands dominance of Netherlands*)
 
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