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Originally Posted by Guaporense
Are you sure? I mean, a country of 50 million people in 250.000 km2 would not starve without food from abroad?
Well, Germany imported about 14% of their food supply in 1939, and had 25% of their working population employed on agriculture. Britain had only 6% of their working population employed on agriculture.
So how they had such ultra high agricultural productivity (5 times the productivity of germany) with less land?
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more men working in agriculture does not mean they are producing more,it means that you NEED more men .
These 25 % of the German working population produces 8 .3 % of the national income .
The answer on your last question :why was their productivity bigger,with less land ? Because the British agriculture was more mechanised :there was 1 tractor for 31O acres arable land in Britain,in Germany 1 for 81O acres .