Improvement in Modern Agriculture

We have most improvements in use some place, but not applied widely enough. Some improvements of course are not applicable to all situations, and we need to be sure to document the situations in which any improvement will actually improve, where the improvement would not be cost effective, where it might be harmful.

Why? too much effort is spent trying to make decisions based on well intention ed advice that would not be useful in the particular situation. But why? People looking for advice are not aware of what in their situation would be significant to disclose when asking. In effect we need something akin to artificial intelligence systems that will guide the farmer to identify the relevant circumstances, and then may be able to present relevant articles, omit the irrelevant or just plain wrong for that situation.Improvement of agricultural methods and productivity to reduce the need to cut down additional forest land. Tropical forests cannot be maintained unless agricultural productivity is greatly improved. However, to feed the projected population of the mid-21century even at present levels, not to mention a level approaching that of developed countries, agricultural efficiencies would have to be far greater than is currently the case in most countries. We need increases in agricultural productivity of between 1.8% and 3% per year for many years..