Sharecropping is an agricultural system where landowners provide land, tools, and seeds to tenants, who in return give a share of the crops produced to the landowner. This arrangement often emerged in the Southern United States after the Civil War, allowing formerly enslaved individuals and poor farmers to work the land. While it provided a means of livelihood, sharecropping frequently resulted in cycles of debt and poverty for the tenants, as they had to borrow money for living expenses and supplies from the landowners.
Landowners often took advantage of workers
Exended social problems
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
The cropping intensity of a specific crop refers to the number of times that a crop is grown in a single year in a particular field. For instance the cropping intensity of the maize crop is two years.
Tenant farmers were also known as share croppers. They did all the work, raised the crop, in exchange for the right to sell part of the crop. Share cropping is now infamous because of the grinding poverty that most of those people lived in.
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Sharecroppers
Landowners often took advantage of workers
I believe a synonym for "share-cropping" is "farming" or even "agriculture".
Share cropping
Exended social problems
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
When you farm land belonging to someone else and share the resulting crop with the owner instead of paying rent.
share cropping
Climate affects all cropping systems, but in a mixed cropping system, when the climate is not optimal there is a chance for greater loss.Ê Mixed cropping systems are generally used when there are minimal resources, so climate could wipe out a whole family farm. What could be recoverable for farmers with crops that are spread outÊwith more resources could be disasterous for a small operation.