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nova9001 t1_iwaf6gd wrote

Reply to comment by DrHalibutMD in Farmers in China and Uganda move to high-yielding, cost-saving perennial rice by tonymmorley

Indeed. Its tiring and low profit.

Might as well get an office job. I am hopeful tech can reverse the trend.

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fizban7 t1_iwbv5ej wrote

As a person with an office job, we should be required to work on a farm once a year to remind ourselves how good we got it.

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FeistyCanuck t1_iwda3f4 wrote

Yea but the tech way one family can farm land that once needed 10s of family's.

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Z3r0sama2017 t1_iwfu1jy wrote

At the low low cost of devastating long term soil health, top soil retention, draining aquifers dry and polluting waterways with chemical run off. Other than that you are indeed correct.

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FeistyCanuck t1_iwhie9g wrote

Big farms can be done responsibly too. A lot of that is related to education and training (and caring) that someone managing a large farm with a long term vision may have but potentially the small scale borderline bankrupt farm might not.

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