Why India needs transgenic crops

[Brad DeLong]

>you are right and wrong.  The US yields are not particularly high, but the
>US output per worker are VERY high.  Also, last I looked the US was a net
>food importer, by $$$.  We import the pricey stuff.
>
>On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:18:14PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>  Michael Perelman wrote:
>>
>>  >The US model is not particularly productive.  It was designed to save
>  > >labor; US yields are actually fairly low.

So in what sense is U.S. agriculture not "productive"? A "productive" 
agriculture in the U.S.--given its relatively low population, the 
high product of labor outside agriculture, and its enormous endowment 
of land--would seem to be an agriculture that economized on labor and 
used its land extensively, thus achieving a high level of output per 
worker and a not-so-high level of output per acre.

"U.S. agriculture not particularly productive." Sheesh...

Brad DeLong