give any 3 reasons why cultivation expanded rapidly in the colonial period ?

 Increasing population, urbanization, increasing foreign trade, demand of commercial crops and decline of small scale and cottage industries inspired the peasants to expand their agricultural area. 

the reasons why which the cultivation expanded in the colonial period

1 they wanted more and more land under cultivation to produce more crop to export to europe to get money and to feed the growing population of england

2 they wanted to convert forests into fields for  increasing lland revenue

3 there were many forest rules made during the colonial period by the british which forced the nomads and forest dwellers to leave their traditional occupation and settle down

the colonial rulers thought that the forests were unproductive.