- Fortunes of agriculture fluctuated due to urbanisation and industrialisation which benefitted big business.
Strengths within agricultural system
- Bismarks1897 Tariff Law protected German farms-both junkers and peasantry
- High prices they recieved
- Rapid population created extra demand+ growth in prices.
- Chemical industry-fertilisers increased yields
- Mechanisation of agriculture, more effcient and less labour intensive increasing output.
Weaknesses within agricultural system
- Urbanisation and loss of workforce to cities
- Recruitment of foreign workers
- Threats of modernatisation i.e imports and refridgerated shipping-cheaper meat.
- Hard to mantain traditional large estate-debt increase- between 1896-1912 astates sold more frequently then before.
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