In this way the Japanese obtain from twenty to thirty-two bushels of dressed rice to the acre in the poor provinces, forty bushels in the better ones, and from sixty to sixty-seven bushels on the best lands.
Kropotkin highlights the effective agricultural practices in Japan that lead to high rice yields.
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