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Originally Posted by Parihaka
The rainforest areas can support ongoing cropping, it just requires modern agricultural practices such as nitrogen fixing with root crops, crop rotation etc etc, none of which is practiced in those areas.
If the various authorities concentrated on teaching modern farming practices rather than simply trying to stop clearances happening, both problems would go away.
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There's little topsoil in rainforest environments. It's a few inches of topsoil on top of clay. Topsoils in Europe and America, by contrast, extend several feet.