Why Is The Second Agricultural Revolution Important

In the first Agricultural Revolution, people farmed to provide food for their family. Producing little amounts of food for little groups of people was a sustainable way to keep families from starving. The second Agricultural Revolution, however, was the complete opposite. Farming became a commercial business, generating profit and more food by using machines to do manual labor and harvesting a variety of crops. The final, and current, Agricultural Revolution includes the production of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and its effects on human health. Evidently, the second Agricultural Revolution was the most influential and impactful toward today’s world because of 4 main reasons. It created more food, better agriculture, new machinery, and new business.
Agriculture is the study of modification of Earth's surface through cultivation of plants and breeding of animals to obtain sustenance or economic gain.
By replacing people with machines, food production was made easier and faster. One of the significant inventions that changed the way we plant crops today is the seed drill, invented by Jethro Tull in 1701 during the second Agricultural Revolution. Before its invention, farmers usually had to plant the seeds by hand which was a laborious task. The seed drill had a rotating cylinder in which grooves were cut to allow seeds to pass from a hopper above to a funnel below and then covered by a harrow. This made seed-sowing much more efficient by enabling farmers to plow three rows of seeds simultaneously. Another notable invention was the tractor, invented by John Froelich in 1892, which ran on gasoline and threshed crops quicker than earlier machines. Before, farmers had to use steam engines which were heavy, hard to maneuver, and a safety hazard to the crops. These are just two of the many instances in which technology aided the development of