Corporate industrial farming in the USA is highly subsidized
by the government, and the availability of cheap commercial
fertilizers and water for irrigation makes them profitable,
but not efficient. It is important to understand the crucial
distinction between profitability and efficiency. I strongly
suspect that the Indian farmer is more efficient in terms of
net productivity than the US industrial farms when all relevant
factors are honestly and completely evaluated.
In any case, neither can expect to produce more than the
productive potential of the land, and the one universal constant
is the amount of water actually AVAILABLE to the plant; how
much water the plant can assimilate to enable it to convert
minerals into biomass. Even Genetically Modified Organisms
(GMO) cannot evade this limitation
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