Russian agriculture, which is technologically underdeveloped, remains…
1888 CE to 1899 CE
Large estates of more than fifty square kilometers account for about twenty percent of all farmland, but for the most part they are not worked in efficient, large-scale units.
Small-scale peasant farming and the growth of the rural population produce extensive agricultural
development because land is used more for gardens and fields of grain and less for grazing meadows than it had been in the past.