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25,000kg (68kg/day) is a lot for a human to consume, that was just the scale given in the article. Drop it by 2 orders of magnitude (10mx10m) and you are looki
by fbdab103 3y ago
25,000kg (68kg/day) is a lot for a human to consume, that was just the scale given in the article.
Drop it by 2 orders of magnitude (10mx10m) and you are looking at 250kg /year. Which sounds like a reasonable amount both for a large garden and human consumption.
- MandieD 3y ago285 kg/year was the approximate per capita potato consumption around 1900 in Germany, before pasta and rice were inexpensive and convenient, and disposable income broadly high - as of 2008, it was only around 63 kg/year: https://taz.de/Das-Jahr-der-Kartoffel/!5170413/ https://taz.de/Das-Jahr-der-Kartoffel/!5170413/ This article also reports that Niedersachsen potato fields (large state in northern Germany) produce an average of 45,000 kg/hectare, or about 18,000 kg/acre.