So, why aren't food-poor countries putting all their efforts into agricultural development? This is a very difficult question.
First of all, when you think of food shortages, the first thing that comes to mind is the country that is not able to feed the domestic population on a calorie basis with its own purchasing power and is receiving overseas assistance. Is it a small country that is in danger of becoming a nation?
In fact, there are many areas where production capacity declines due to the battlefield trying to seize land suitable for agriculture.
Second, some countries lack the ability to produce efficient and competitive agriculture, and have to focus on non-agricultural efforts (low priority) to acquire foreign currency.
The concept of economics has been around for a long time, but there is an idea that it is efficient for the entire international community to carry out international division of labor and to communicate with each other. In order to do so, it is necessary to invest resources in highly efficient and competitive means and earn international currency to purchase from other countries. In countries where food production is disadvantageous, it is better not to focus on agricultural development (in some respects).
Japan may be in a country that lacks food. In Japan, about 3% of the population is engaged in agriculture, but about half of the calories are imported.
In Japan, the government had a policy to reduce rice, but the manufacturing and service industries were more income than agriculture, so the labor force population moved.
In the future, I think that there will be more ways to cultivate good vegetables by controlling nutrients in buildings like factories in a labor-saving manner using natural energy. It is unfortunate that in developing countries, despite food shortages, it appears that they are not focusing on agricultural development.
Simply put, the development of agriculture requires conditions other than technology directly related to agriculture.
one, Finding crops that match the country's climate, Knowledge education on farmer training and fertilizer, Agricultural civil engineering for irrigation, Infrastructure for transporting and storing agricultural products (transportation, warehouses, etc.), In the field of commerce and logistics, cultivation of crop supply routes and securing of markets, etc.
In a nutshell, agriculture can only solve a food shortage without establishing a continuous supply system for people, infrastructure (such as transport road communications), utilities (such as electric water), and business.
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