Interestingly, only 1.3% of the U.S. population is engaged in farming. These farms produce goods worth $200 billion. Out of that, $177 billion is for export. In other words, 1.3% of the population feeds themselves and the remaining 98.7% and there’s still an eightfold reserve left.
I looked at the data for Belarus – 7.2% of the population exports goods worth $6.6 billion. In Russia in 2015, it was 9% and $25 billion.
