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Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the labour force. It contributes around 2% of GDP. Around two thirds of production is devoted to livestock, one third to arable crops. Agriculture is heavily subsidised by the European Union's ...
This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England, 9% from Scotland, 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales.
e. The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the hundred-year period ending in 1770, and ...
Advice on more productive techniques for farming began to appear in England in the mid-17th century, from writers such as Samuel Hartlib, Walter Blith and others. The main problem in sustaining agriculture in one place for a long time was the depletion of nutrients, most importantly nitrogen levels, in the soil.
The great depression of British agriculture occurred during the late nineteenth century and is usually dated from 1873 to 1896. [1] Contemporaneous with the global Long Depression, Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation in the 1870s ...
The Royal Agricultural Society of England ( RASE) promotes the scientific development of English agriculture. It was established in 1838 with the motto "Practice with Science" and received its Royal Charter from Queen Victoria in 1840. [1] The RASE is based in Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. [2]
This category has the following 34 subcategories, out of 34 total. Agriculture in England (18 C, 15 P) Agriculture in Northern Ireland (3 C, 5 P) Agriculture in Scotland (14 C, 46 P) Agriculture in Wales (8 C, 7 P)
A. Agricultural buildings in England (5 C, 7 P) Agricultural museums in England (1 C, 15 P) Agricultural shows in England (1 C, 38 P) Agriculture in Hertfordshire (1 C, 1 P) Animal breeds originating in England (9 C) Animal welfare and rights in England (3 C, 1 P)