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The reality is that you are not going to feed a town with a tractor or a robot acting as a tractor. This is because with your robot, you are producing cereals.
by Loic 10y ago
The reality is that you are not going to feed a town with a tractor or a robot acting as a tractor. This is because with your robot, you are producing cereals. If you want to feed the town, you need fruits and vegetables.
Now, if you want high density, sustainable fruits and vegetables production, you need to pay extremely attention to your soil. Practically it means, try to never walk on it and produce multiple species on the same area to use the different patterns of root networks, shadow and cross protection effects.
If you do that, you end up being highly productive on a small surface but it is also very hard to see opportunities in using robots. Take a look at a very smart people running a small farm[0], he is relentless in using and building the right tools to save work and improve output etc.
[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Market-Gardener-Successful-Handbook-Small-scale/dp/0865717656 https://www.amazon.com/Market-Gardener-Successful-Handbook-S...
- lawless123 10y agoPeople can survive on cereals.
- roryisok 10y agonot cereals alone, and not if they destroy the soil in a few generations
- CuriouslyC 10y agoAnd primitive hunter-gatherer people tend to be taller, more intelligent and healthier than primitive agricultural people.