This January I saw quite a few tractors in a 2-week period. There is more production than this, but subsistence agriculture is not included in the statistics. The rest ends up in the GDP figure. In addition, citrus crops are grown on a small acreage. And there is some movement to export vegetables to the middle east, at lower prices than India.
People are everywhere.
It is a country of contrasts. On city streets and rural roads, expensive Japanese cars pass beggars and homeless children hungry for something to eat. As a Canadian farmer, it's not easy walking through all this. The look of hunger is unforgettable. Author Phillip Shaw checks out rice paddies For the past 20 years, the country has had an annual food deficit of 20 million tonnes.