Food and Agriculture
Use of Fertilizers

Less fertilizer, greater crop yields, and more money: China’s agricultural breakthrough

Burgess COMMENTARY
Very good point ... and in the USA, there once was a very robust extension system that helped American agriculture improve its technical productivity which was good, and then another wave that converted it into a very profitable machine with all sorts of externalities being ignored which is going to be / being disastrous Peter Burgess http://truevaluemetrics.org
Peter Burgess

Less fertilizer, greater crop yields, and more money: China’s agricultural breakthrough Nearly 21 million farmers in 452 counties across China have adopted recommendations from scientists in a 10-year agriculture sustainability study to reduce fertilizer use. According to Nature, their efforts are paying off: all told, the farmers are now $12.2 billion better off than they were before.