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by londons_explore 2472 days ago
> so small and so far from most of the continent that it's always going to have a cost handicap

Iceland has very high labor prices. Anything that needs a lot of human labor isn't going to be worthwhile as an export from Iceland. Tomatoes need picking and packaging by hand still, and while that's the case, it'll never be a major exporter.