id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3910 British Agricultural Revolution - Wikipedia .html text/html 6754 796 62 The British Agricultural Revolution was the result of the complex interaction of social, economic and farming technological changes. One of the most important innovations of the British Agricultural Revolution was the development of the Norfolk four-course rotation, which greatly increased crop and livestock yields by improving soil fertility and reducing fallow.[5] It hit the agricultural sector hard and was the most severe in Europe and the United States, which had been experiencing strong economic growth fuelled by the Second Industrial Revolution in the decade following the American Civil War. By 1900 half the meat eaten in Britain came from abroad and tropical fruits such as bananas were also being imported on the new refrigerator ships. The Agricultural Revolution in Britain proved to be a major turning point in history, allowing the population to far exceed earlier peaks and sustain the country's rise to industrial pre-eminence. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3910.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3910.txt