 Many new villages were established on the periphery of the older ones, and therefore few of the new villages contained state-owned leasehold land ().Starting in the late 1800s, the Faroes developed from an agricultural society with coastal fishing as secondary occupation to a fairly uniform fishing-based economy with a large land-based fish-processing industry.Industrialization led to significant centralization of the population, so that some of the new farming villages were depopulated quickly.