Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.

Though this method prevailed in general for a long time, but with an increase in population pressure on land with time it became necessary to adopt more progressive methods of crop cultivation. Thus a method similar to primitive crop rotation came to be accepted here. Adoption of this method, the resulting expansion of arable area and a relative shrinking of pasture land was also caused by the increasing exports of grain from this region. On the eve of the 1917 revolution this area had already evolved into a region of extensive wheat cultivation for export purposes through the outlets provided by the Black Sea and Azov Sea ports.

Explain briefly the salient features of the Russian Emancipation Act.