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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 ...
Agriculture in the United Kingdom. A combine harvester in Scotland. Agriculture in the United Kingdom uses 69% of the country's land area, employs 1% of its workforce (471,000 people) [1] [2] and contributes 0.5% of its gross value added ( £ 11.2 billion). [3] The UK currently produces about 54% of its domestic food consumption.
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 ...
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 ...
Britain's native tree flora comprises 32 species, of which 29 are broadleaves. The UK's industry and populace uses at least 50 million tonnes of timber a year. More than 75% of this is softwood, and British forests cannot supply the demand; in fact, less than 10% of the timber used in Britain is home-grown.
15th-century hay-making, depicted in an English stained glass window. The economics of English agriculture in the Middle Ages is the economic history of English agriculture from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII in 1509. England's economy was fundamentally agricultural throughout the period, though even before the invasion ...
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)
Walton is generally believed to mean "wall-town", Walsoken to mean "the district under particular jurisdiction by the wall", and Walpole to mean simply "wall-pole" (Old English wal and pal). When written records resume in Anglo-Saxon England, the names of a number of peoples of the Fens are recorded in the Tribal Hidage and Christian histories.