9.+Advantages+and+Disadvantages+of+an+Agricultural+Economy

**__Advantages and Disadvantages of an Agricultural Economy __**


 * Advantages and Disadvantages of an Agricultural Economy ||
 * Advantages || Disadvantages  ||
 * Produce food crops || Only 10% of world’s land is arable  ||
 * Produce raw material for products || Pesticides can diminish nutrients in soil  ||
 * Some crops can be used as fuel || Some common pesticides can harm food  ||
 * Crop rotations provide improved water quality || Organic agriculture costs a lot to farm  ||
 * Food produced on pastures is healthy and can help body fight diseases || Famine causes decrease in the amount of crops produced  ||

 1)  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">What happened to prices when more cotton is produced than can be sold?

When there is too much surplus, prices fall because the farmers need to get rid of all the extra cotton. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Black'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Arial Black';">

2)  <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Arial Black','sans-serif';">What is sharecropping and what impact did it have on African Americans?

Sharecropping is where a plantation owner allows a tenant, usually an African American, to farm on the land. The tenant would only get a portion of the money from the crops, and would not be able to pay the tabs produced from planting the crops. This affected African Americans harshly because it was like slavery since the tenant would be in debt and not allowed to stop sharecropping.

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<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;">By: Tyler Wooten