[contingencies]

Central planning and heterogeneous large scale distributed agriculture don't mix.

[fragmede]

That seems like an oversimplification of what happened to Soviet Russia and China under Mao.

[trhway]

I grew up in USSR, and wrt agriculture it isnt oversimplification, it is exactly how it was there. It was the key factor resulting in the food shortages, and that was a major factor in the USSR collapse.

[worik]

Central planning and agriculture don't mix.

[BigTTYGothGF]

China seems to be doing OK these days, are they no longer planning centrally?