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Human still hasn't fully modernized/mechanized farming on the India Subcontent or Africa. Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.

• merpnderp 11y ago
  The Japanese get the most production per hectare of land. The rest of the industrialized world isn't even close. Humanity has a lot of ground to cover before we starve.
  • mc32 11y ago
    Do you have a source for that, my impression was that many of those family farms were rather small and inefficient, but I could be wrong.
    • merpnderp 11y ago
      Looks like my data is outdated and the US has caught up. Here's what it looked like the last time I was interested in this material: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG?page=3&order=wbapi_data_value_2013%20wbapi_data_value%20wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.YLD.CREL.KG?page=3&or...