The correct option is A England
Landowners from England generally only rented out poor
bogland to the native Irish. In these areas, potatoes were often the
only food that could be grown. The crop failures were caused by late
blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or
tubers, of the potato plant. The causative agent of late blight is the water
mould Phytophthora infestans. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th
century. In fact, the most glaring cause of the famine was not a
plant disease, but England's long-running political hegemony over Ireland. The English conquered Ireland, several times,
and took ownership of the vast agricultural territory. The Irish suffered from
many famines under English
rule option ‘a’ is the correct answer.