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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Again, we may thus say, that where we require now three acres, one acre would be sufficient for growing the same amount…

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Again, we may thus say, that where we require now three acres, one acre would be sufficient for growing the same amount of food, if planting wide apart were resorted to.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin argues for the effectiveness of wide planting methods in reducing land requirements for food production.

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