Colonial Agriculture

Types of Colonial Agriculture

1. Colonial Agriculture was introduced by the Colonialist to produce cash crops
which were to be exported to European to feed various industries.
Types of Colonial Agriculture:
.Plantation Agriculture
.Settler Agriculture
.Peasant Agriculture

Plantation Agriculture
This is a large production unit of Agriculture producing for sale and employing a
large number of unskilled labourers who are closely supervised.
Plantation Agriculture are huge plantations with a single production, which were
either owned by the Colonial government or absent Capitalist in Europe who sent
representatives to take over the plantation.

Peasant Agriculture
This is where a person owned or rented a small plot where he worked using his
family labour to produce for his own subsistence and also for non-agriculture
production. Peasant agriculture is the type of agriculture where small farmers
were allowed to grow cash crops in their small plot alongside with their
subsistence crops using family labour and technology.
Settler Agriculture
This is where a foreign immigrant from a foreign country particular Europe who
had a home in the colony and engaged in commercial agriculture by using cheap
African Labour migrant and forced labour.