What kind of farming was developed in the south at the end of the civil war?

At the end of the Civil War, the South saw the development of sharecropping and tenant farming as a means to revive its economy. Sharecropping involved landowners providing land, tools, and seeds to freedmen and poor whites, who would work the land in exchange for a share of the crop. This system often left farmers in a cycle of debt and poverty, as they struggled to meet their obligations to landowners and merchants. These practices marked a transition from plantation agriculture to a more fragmented and economically dependent form of farming.