Answer:
(a) The growing of turnip and clover helped farmers it made the soil more fertile. Turnip was also a good fodder crop relished by cattle. (b) Therefore, farmers began to grow these crops regularly. Later farmers realised that these crops had the capacity to increase the nitrogen content of the soil. (c) Nitrogen was important as repeated cultivation of the same piece of land reduced its fertility. By restoring nitrogen, turnip and clover made the soil fertile once again. (d) This made farmers realize that enclosures were necessary to make long-term investments on land and plan crop rotations to improve the soil.
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