Productivity is susceptible of more than one definition, but this article concentrates on basic increases in outputs or decreases in inputs. The selected countries differ greatly in their economic and political status but this comparative review of the way in which six important agricultural parameters have changed since the beginning of the century reveals many points of similarity.
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