Agrarian parties of Finland were and their successors are a typical part of the development in the Nordic countries, which has been based on milk production in distant and relatively sparsely populated areas.
This made parliamentary life fragile in Finland as the reforms created mistrust between the Agrarian League lea mainly by Kyösti Kallio and the National Coalition party (National Coalition since 1951), which favoured bigger land-owners.
The rest of the parties emerged in the early 20th century, spurred by the introduction of universal suffrage and proportional representation across the region.
[2] In the 1930s spontaneous Agradian movements were based on the critique against the cabinets, where also the Agrarian League was presented.
The second split happened in the late 1950s as Finland started to industrialise strongly setting the national target, the Swedish model.
A member of the Agrarian league, Veikko Vennamo, established the Small Peasants' Party of Finland in 1959, which got three substantial victories in 1970, also in 1972 and 1983.