Title: A Look Back at the Last 250 Years of French Agriculture
Headings: A Look Back at the Last 250 Years of French Agriculture
A Look Back at the Last 250 Years of French Agriculture
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION
19TH CENTURY MODERNIZATION OF AGRICULTURE SPARKS INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THE 20TH CENTURY: MORE SPECIALIZED AGRICULTURE TO ACHIEVE FOOD SECURITY AND A BASE FOR EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION
THE 21ST CENTURY: A NEW STEP TO PRODUCE MORE AND BETTER FOOD, WHILE PRESERVING THE QUALITY OF OUR ENVIRONMENT
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Content: Three major factors seem to have caused it. A decrease in prices led to a decrease in farmers’ incomes. Some agricultural products disappeared because of technological innovations like nuse of natural colorants or the breeding of silk worms near Lyon, while some new products arriving from the colonies created new competition. Finally, the mushroom phylloxera destroyed most of the French vines. This epidemic had a huge socio-economic impact since vineyards were grown on poor soils. ©DR/Min. Agri. Fr
This economic crisis led to profound change in the French rural world. Polyculture was abandoned; the different regions specialized in a specific type of crop.