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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by rmason on Monday June 03, 2019 @01:51AM (#20080691)
If they're importing a large amount of their food from Europe as the article states they very well can lower the cost by producing it locally. Even if they're less efficient than the Europeans in doing so.
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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by thrower123 on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:57AM (#20082612)
I'm not sure they can, actually. The wheat fields of Kansas or the Ukraine are so vastly more productive than trying to grow crops in a tropical climate.
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Re:Millennials ‘Make Farming Sexy’ in Africa, Where Tilling ... by phil21 on Monday June 03, 2019 @09:38AM (#20082914)
Plus a lot of those fields of grain are subsidized during times of plenty for national security (and other) reasons.
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