Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israel works on basic matters that are noticed by each African citizen--like raising the standard of living and the crop yield--while we deal too much on major, impersonal projects...
...that it would be dry on Monday. A collective farm boss in Rumania confessed that the peasants "just don't care any more." This year's total harvest in Eastern Europe will be scarcely better than prewar production in the same area. Significantly, perhaps, the best yield will be in Poland, where some 86% of the land is still privately owned and worked...
...making it plain once again that they lack a green thumb. This is all the more remarkable because, since the war, much of the non-Communist world has experienced a startling agricultural revolution. Machines are replacing men in the fields; with countless innovations, science has vastly increased the yield of the earth. But at a time when the U.S. is glutted with food, Western Europe produces more than it can eat, and per capita farm production rises steadily even in such "underdeveloped" countries as Burma, Thailand and Formosa, the Communist bloc is beset by agricultural troubles that result in belt...
...program involving direct subsidies would serve as a method for restoring freedom of action and reducing costs. In the development of such a program farmers could be roughly divided into three groups: wealthy farmers, inefficient (low yield per acre) farmers with low incomes, and efficient farmers with low incomes. Wealthy farmers do not need federal assistance. Inefficient farmers with low incomes should be retrained for other jobs. It is the third group which ought to be treated in a flexible manner...
...many cases, therefore, big farmers can afford to produce primarily for government consumption. Acreage restriction, on the other hand, gives the greatest benefits to very inefficient farmers. Since the government doles out generous grants for each acre taken out of production, farmers who previously obtained a very low yield are profiting much more than their more efficient competitors...