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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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