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Re:Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a... by danielbarla on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:05AM (#13316021)
Not OP, but thought this link to Hungary's attempts at collective farming might be relevant [1]. Being Hungarian, I've heard many anecdotal stories lamenting the abolishment of that system, to the detriment of small land owners. (In general, in the post-socialist economy, nothing seems to have taken its place, leading to obvious problems of scale and access to equipment.)

The last sentence in the article is quite shocking, though unattributed:

> By 1989, Hungary's total annual agricultural output was larger than that of France.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_Hungary

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Re:Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a... by azernik on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:20AM (#13318000)
Oh yeah - I'm Israeli, so I know what a well-known run agricultural collective can do (in the kibbutz as well as the "lite" version, the moshava). I'm more curious to know what the equivalent structure is in Ghana, and why it has such trouble managing equipment. This has been done before, they're just not doing it well.
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