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by glaberficken 2253 days ago
While factually true, this does not apply at all to how olive trees are farmed in intensive plantations in the real world.

The typical modern plantation in Spain/Portugal uses very young and small trees (they start giving fruit by year 4) supported by intensive automated watering (typically from nearby dam projects) and with the trees spaced out just right for automated picking.

Like this photo: https://images.impresa.pt/expresso/2019-09-06-pag16_T-_IDP.j...