A History of Agriculture in India v2.c56.4

v2.c56.4

'Another significant effect of the commercial revival was the tendency toward agricultural specialization. Certain regions concentrated on one product. Some landlords devoted all their acres to a crop which could be exported. The Cistercian abbeys of England, for example, were famous for their wool. In certain favourable areas, vineyards spread at the expense of grain growing. All these tendencies quickened in the later middle ages.'⁵ In India such developments did not take place, and agriculture deteriorated.