Lessons from Agriculture
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Agriculture has two ways to increase its output, expanding the land area under cultivation and improving the yields on cultivated land. If agricultural growth and performance taken to increase the farming incomes of rural families, then a third way can be added, i.e. shifting the product composition to higher value products. For decades, it has been commented that, globally the possibilities for expanding the land area under cultivation are diminishing steadily. Pursuing that route increasingly risks environmental degradation in many parts of the world as forests are cut down and soils on slopes are eroded and degraded. Therefore, the only viable options that remain are increasing yields and changing the product composition (Ellis, 2007). However, while shifting abstract
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