What is meant by the term British agriculture revolution
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The British Agricultural Revolution was the unprecedented
increase in agricultural production in Britain due to increases in
labour and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th
centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the
century to 1770, and thereafter productivity remained among the highest
in the world. This increase in the food supply contributed to the rapid
growth of population in England and Wales, from 5.5 million in 1700 to
over 9 million by 1801 though domestic production gave way increasingly
to food imports in the nineteenth century as population more than
tripled to over 32 million.[1]
The rise in productivity accelerated the decline of the agricultural
share of the labour force, adding to the urban workforce on which
industrialization depended: the Agricultural Revolution has therefore
been cited as a cause of the Industrial Revolution
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