Tenant farming created a new class of wealthy southerners called merchants. Tenant farmers paid a landowner rent for farmland and a house, The tenant farmer owned the crops, and at harvest time would sell the crops for income to pay rent. However, due to poor crops and various other issues, tenant farmers often borrowed on credit to make the rent. It became a vicious cycle for the tenant farmer, but advantageous for the merchants.
merchants
Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
Cash rent or tenant farming.
Exended social problems
Tenant and Sharecropping
Merchants
merchants
Tenant Farming also called Sharecropping came about in 1865 in the United States.
Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management
tenant farming
system of farming in which a person rents land to farm from a planter
A tenant farmer
sharecropping
tenant farming
Both tenant farming and sharecropping were agricultural systems prevalent in the southern United States after the Civil War. Both involved renting land to work and paying a portion of the harvest as a form of payment to the landowner. However, in sharecropping, the tenant typically received a share of the harvest, while in tenant farming, the tenant paid rent in cash or crops.
British law discouraged tenant farming
Sharecropping is a system of agriculture or agricultural production in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land. A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a landlord.