The State of World Agriculture
What is crop rotation?

One agricultural development of great import to come from this scientific revolution was the idea of crop rotation, which involved the alteration of legumes with grain, which spread from England, a bastion of scientific farming due to the small amount of land available to feed the large population, to the Americas and the rest of Europe. (Tannahill 106) And with the industrial revolution of the 1700s came farm machinery, which allowed for the defeat of the principles of Thomas Malthus. To further this goal, the concept of hybridisation arose, which lead to hardier crops, which was especially effective with wheat and corn. (Tannahill 42)

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