According to Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, Australia’s biggest agriculture problem is a lack of good topsoil; you really can’t farm it very well because if you don’t return the nutrients from the plants to the soil by not harvesting, you end up unable to grow much of anything at all a year later.
According to Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, Australia’s biggest agriculture problem is a lack of good topsoil; you really can’t farm it very well because if you don’t return the nutrients from the plants to the soil by not harvesting, you end up unable to grow much of anything at all a year later.