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Under such a system of culture the soil was soon exhausted, the crop declined, and intensive agriculture (which aims at high crops on a limited area) had soon to be resorted to.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Under such a system of culture the soil was soon exhausted, the crop declined, and intensive agriculture (which aims at…”
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He warns that intensive agriculture became necessary due to soil exhaustion under previous farming systems.
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