Explain the effects of agrarian revolution in Britain.
Answer:
-It resulted to population increase due to production of adequate food.
- There was an increase in food production due to improved methods and irrigation.
- The enclosure system resulted in rural urban migration of peasants deprived of their lands by rich farmers.
- Trade activities expanded due to surplus production and specialization.
- Agriculture related industries grew up in Britain to of agricultural produce.
- Transport and communication network such as roads and railways were developed to link agricultural areas to towns.
- Development of the Royal Agricultural Society which published news and discoveries related to the field of agriculture and research.
- Methods of farming were improved through breeding and inventions such as
machines, crop rotation and use of fertilizers.
- British farmers abandoned subsistence farming and established large scale farming under large plantations which facilitated mechanization.