Local Small Farmers benefitted considerably because they were now able to own their own land, build substantial houses and buy imported goods. For several decades in the late nineteenth century, standards of living improved sharply. It was a very different situation from that of peasants forced to grow crops that seriously interfered with their food production.
Profitable cash crop farming also developed in the southern Gold Coast, a British territory in West Africa. Unlike Burma, it was African farmers themselves who took the initiative to develop export agriculture.
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