These maps are pretty. But the scale is pretty meaningless.
Let’s look at the first map, as an example. The whole of Denmark is yellow, and virtually the whole of Sweden is pale green. Does that mean there are 1-10 hectares of maize in the whole of Denmark, and <1 (but >0) hectares of maize in the whole of Sweden? That can’t be right, sitely. A hectare is only the size of about 1½ football pitches. It would need to be an extraordinarily detailed survey to establish that there definitely isn’t another field of maize somewhere in Sweden.
So what do the colours mean? 1-10 hectares per … something? But what is that something? Per square kilometer? It can’t be that, because there are only 100 ha in a sq km, but the scale goes up to >2000 ha. Per local government area? But they’re not going to be consistent in size, and 1000 ha of a cop in, say, Liechtenstein is very different from 1000 ha of the crop in Texas.
I hope you get my point. What on earth does the scale represent?
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I wonder what the other 19 maps look like, maize is just the first one.
Background-Vast-8764 on
More of Africa needs to get on the nixtamalization train with their maize.
nai-ba on
So Norway only grows a little bit of wheat, and that’s it?
sonoale on
How about sugar beet?
Practical-Jump-253 on
That one little watermelon hotbed in Northern Senegal is *👨🍳 💋 *
SoyLuisHernandez on
I don’t understand how a map, showing area, uses a reference with area units
juant675 on
and the rest of the world?
Mondiani_99 on
„Algeria“ is so dry that it harvests nothing but Polisario terrorists
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Refer to the first 3 maps whenever someone asks why India has over a billion people
Cameroon being carrying the tomato economy! 💪🇨🇲
India is indeed land of wealth. They may have a down turn for the past 1-2 centuries but sure they will bounce back.
India’s PRODUCING.
Holy crap, the soil there has to be made of gold.
We do grow a lot of tomatoes in Iraq.
It’s the #1 most important thing to buy when we go for a grocery.
Kansas 🤝 Ukraine
I had no idea Europe grew so much maize. Is that a recent trend or has it been that way for a while?
Would have expected yam to be more spread out in Africa
Africa could be a global agricultural powerhouse if the global north allowed them to mechanize
I am surprised coffee growing regions are actually of smaller land area.
Where is the map for cocoa?
Romania having zero watermelon crops is the biggest fattest lie.
Why cowpea no image?
So it would be nice to see the north and South America graphs to compare to
I was wondering why these maps are showing the subdivisions of India and of no other country, then I noticed OP’s username, lol.
Source: CROPGRIDs
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-024-03247-7
These maps are pretty. But the scale is pretty meaningless.
Let’s look at the first map, as an example. The whole of Denmark is yellow, and virtually the whole of Sweden is pale green. Does that mean there are 1-10 hectares of maize in the whole of Denmark, and <1 (but >0) hectares of maize in the whole of Sweden? That can’t be right, sitely. A hectare is only the size of about 1½ football pitches. It would need to be an extraordinarily detailed survey to establish that there definitely isn’t another field of maize somewhere in Sweden.
So what do the colours mean? 1-10 hectares per … something? But what is that something? Per square kilometer? It can’t be that, because there are only 100 ha in a sq km, but the scale goes up to >2000 ha. Per local government area? But they’re not going to be consistent in size, and 1000 ha of a cop in, say, Liechtenstein is very different from 1000 ha of the crop in Texas.
I hope you get my point. What on earth does the scale represent?
I wonder what the other 19 maps look like, maize is just the first one.
More of Africa needs to get on the nixtamalization train with their maize.
So Norway only grows a little bit of wheat, and that’s it?
How about sugar beet?
That one little watermelon hotbed in Northern Senegal is *👨🍳 💋 *
I don’t understand how a map, showing area, uses a reference with area units
and the rest of the world?
„Algeria“ is so dry that it harvests nothing but Polisario terrorists