The country should import more grain in order to raise more livestock, and devote its own land to the more profitable business of growing cash crops for export.
Every grain of sand washed away by rain from mountains and from the land finally reaches these obstacles called dams which we built across rivers and remains there, diminishing further the water storage capacity of dams.
But what helped tip the scales was that government researchers put more countries into their land use model (140 instead of 60), which reduced the average penalty and made grain-based biofuels look a lot prettier.
"There are well-publicised grain shortages in France and America and this is some of the best farming land not only in the county, but the country, " he said.