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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by enriquto on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:34AM (#28444627)
> organic farming performs better than conventional for nearly all crop types when energy use is expressed on a unit of area basis

Well, of course. But that's a useless measurement. The whole point of hi-tech farming is to increase the density. Organic farming is less efficient for unit of food produced.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by giantg2 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:03AM (#28444992)
"Organic farming is less efficient for unit of food produced."

Do you have data on that?

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by guerby on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:23AM (#28445233)
Ironically one of the source wrongly cited in the article says the contrary (ie organic is more efficient on energy per unit of food), see my comment below:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444679

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by enriquto on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:25AM (#28445981)
That's the next sentence on the article that I quoted (in the abstract).
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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by giantg2 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:22PM (#28447337)
I don't see it saying that. It says the results are more variable on a per unit basis. This article says organic is still more energy efficient on a per unit basis.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-resource-1...

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Re:Sri Lanka’s overnight flip to organic farming has led to ... by bombcar on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:47AM (#28444797)
My new HyperOrganic™ farming wins - only one seed allowed per acre, and minimal energy usage per unit of area.
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