Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.
The north of European Russia is the region where most of the area was covered by forests or marshlands. The remaining area, not very large by itself, consisted of meadows and pasture lands. Just a very small portion was used for the cultivation of crops with the chief grain crop in this region being rye and not wheat. In this region due to its peculiarities (difficult drainage, long winter period, land largely unsuitable for ploughing, etc.) more progressive methods of land utilisation and cultivation were: adopted than in other regions of Russia and the use of multiple grass crop and roots was introduced to improve upon the three field rotation system.
Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.
