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To give one remarkable example, the time between harvesting one crop and planting the next, in effect the downtime for land, has been reduced an astounding thirty minutes. There are still many areas of the world that have good land which could be used far more productively if it was properly managed by large companies. For example, almost 90% of Mozambique’s land, an enormous area, is idle.
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Madmen dictators aside, this is
not necessarily the case with the major rice producing nations. In India for e.g., the available area for cultivation has remained the same or has decreased. Whatever area is left available is split into miniscule (by US standards) land tracts and therefore may not yield to high technology agriculture.
In such cases the government would do well to try and persuade farmers to pool their land and use high productive techniques, as well as high yield varieties of rice...