Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.

The central region consists of a belt that stretches from the district of Minsk in Bylorussia through Moscow to Perm in the east. The main form of agricultural activity in the region of this belt which lies between Minsk and Moscow were pig breeding and stock raising on a small scale, crops such as flax and potatoes (on a larger scale) and in very limited scale cereal cultivation. Around Moscow market gardening, dairy farming and cattle breeding were the most prominent forms of agricultural activities. To the east of Moscow the arable area comprised 50 per cent of the total land mass of this region. Most of the arable land here was occupied under rye cultivation and rest under some other cereals. Lifestock breeding was also conducted on a moderate scale. Further east towards Perm forest and pasture land occupied most of the area with arable land constituting only a small portion adequate, perhaps, only for purposes of rural consumption. This was thinly populated in contrast to the rest of the Central region.

Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.