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Sri Lanka's Fast Track to Agricultural Collapse

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Thermodynamics of Agriculture

Before synthetic fertilizers, you ena relying essentially on guanober animal manure. And organic fertilizer is just entirely different from the synthetic fertilizers that we were able to start producing in the early 19 hundreds. Synthetic fertilizer has a tent of a, has a higher nutrient content, and it's able to disperse nutrients much more quickly to two crops. So as a result, you are able to see a rapid increase in yields,. This allowed us to feed more people, but it also allowed economies to develop as agricultural productivity a increase.

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