The world’s model farms

Netherlands · Westland

Dutch greenhouses

×13

tomato yield vs. the world average

Read more →Photo: Rob Oo from NL · CC BY 2.0

Spain · Almeria

Almeria’s sea of greenhouses

€4.1 billion

in fruit and vegetable exports, 2024/25 season

Read more →Photo: NASA · Public domain

Israel · Arava and Negev

Israel’s water

≈90%

of treated wastewater goes to irrigation

Read more →Photo: Eddau · CC BY-SA 3.0

Russia · South, Center, Volga region, Siberia

Russia’s grain

No. 1

in world wheat exports

Read more →Photo: Ростсельмаш СМИ · CC BY-SA 4.0

China and Southeast Asia

Drones over Asia’s rice

300,000+

ag drones at work in China (2025)

Read more →Photo: Christopher Hedreyd - PIA 4A CALABARZON · Public domain

Vietnam · Mekong Delta

Mekong Delta rice

1 million ha

of low-emission rice by 2030

Read more →Photo: Dragfyre · CC BY-SA 3.0

Vietnam · Lam Dong

Da Lat greenhouses

107,000 ha

of high-tech farming in the province

Read more →Photo: RG72 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Vietnam · Phu Quoc

Phu Quoc pepper

$1.66 billion

Vietnam’s pepper exports in 2025

Read more →Photo: Tonbi ko · CC BY-SA 4.0

Russia · Krasnodar Krai

Sochi tea

326 ha

of tea plantations in use out of 1,203 suitable

Read more →Photo: Ивченко Михаил Сергеевич · CC BY 4.0

USA, Brazil, Argentina, Russia

Living soil

205 million ha

of conservation agriculture worldwide

Read more →Photo: USDA NRCS South Dakota · Public domain

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