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After scraping the corn laws, British agriculture was unable to compete with the imports.

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Due to the rapid increase in population, demand for food grains increased in Britain, so to comply with the situation, the British government scrapped the corn laws. Urban Dwellers and Industrialists demanded to do so. But due to imports of corn coming at a very low price, the farmers of Britain's situation were worse. Britain's agriculture was in a very naive condition, and it could not maintain the competition with the imports because it was in a very unstable position. Due to the scrapping of corn laws, farmers had to leave their occupations, and huge unemployment prevailed.

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