British Agriculture
England was one of the first nations in the modern period to increase the efficiency of its agricultural production, making it possible to produce the same or more while using fewer workers. By the end of the seventeenth century, England was already in advance of most of continental Europe in agricultural productivity, with only about 60percent of its workers involved primarily in food production. Although the actual number of workers in agriculture continued to grow until the middle of the nineteenth century, the proportion declined steadily to about 36 percent at the beginning of the nineteenth century, to about22 percent in the mid-nineteenth century (when the absolute number was at its maximum), and to less than 10 percent at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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