It is a hard problem. Historically, people often grew plants in heterogeneous environments because they grew their own crops. Even if it wasn't _all_ of their f

It is a hard problem. Historically, people often grew plants in heterogeneous environments because they grew their own crops. Even if it wasn't _all_ of their food, it was still a subset of their food. But it was very labor intensive. The scale of monocrop farming today with modern tractors is a very new field as well (no pun intended). With machine learning specifically, I can see a robot arm being able to farm a lot of mixed crops. This is already happening for the most labor-intensive crops like strawberries[0]. Robots are cheap and can work 24/7. I think it just a matter of time before computers advance enough to be able to perform the basic, repetitive tasks that humans are able to. 0: https://www.therobotreport.com/strawberry-picking-robot-maker-raises-75m/ https://www.therobotreport.com/strawberry-picking-robot-make...