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IN the very sympathetic notice of my book, “Plant Nutrition and Crop Production,” in NATURE of Mar. 26, p. 454, the reviewer raises the interesting question how far science has actually helped in increasing the production of food. Statistics show that, in spite of the scientific work, the yield of wheat per acre in England is not much greater than it was fifty years ago, and it is implied that scientific work has in practice achieved little, however interesting its results may have been from other points of view.
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RUSSELL, E. Science and Food Production. Nature 119, 636 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119636a0
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