Conclusion on the Modern Agriculture in England


 
 
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Conclusion on the Modern Agriculture in England

Conclusion on the Modern Agriculture in England: The coming of modern agriculture in England thus meant many different changes.  The open fields disappeared, and the customary rights of peasants were undermined. The richer farmers expanded grain production , sold this grain in the world market, made profits and become powerful. the poor left their villages in a large numbers. Some went from the midlands to the southern countries where jobs were available, others to the cities. The income off labourers become unstable , their jobs insecure, their livelihood dependent on others.

 

Bread Basket of the World; Modern agriculture developed in USA and it became the bread basket of the world. At the time, when common fields were being enclosed in England at the end of the 18th century, settled agriculture had not developed on any extensive scale in the USA. At that time, forests covered over 800 million acres and grasslands (prairies) 600 million acres. Most of the landscape was not under the control of white Americans.  tribes and transformed whole landscape into agricultural fields.

  • Most of the landscape was not under the control of white American till the 1780s, white American settlements were confined to a small narrow strip of coastal land in the east. If you travelled through the country at that time you would have met various Native Americans groups. several of them were nomadic, some were settled. Many of them lived only by hunting, gathering and fishing, others cultivated corn, beans, tobacco and pumpkin.
  • Still others were expert trappers through whom European traders had secured their suppliers of beaver fur since the sixteenth century.by the early twentieth century, this landscape had transformed radically.
  • White Americans had moved westward and established the entire landscape into different agricultural belts. The USA had come to dominate the world market in agricultural produce .
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