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and northern Germany, short and rainy summer seasons severely limited the crops that could be grown and the population that could be supported. Irish peasants discovered that just one acre of potatoes, planted in soil that was poor for grains, could support a full family. German peasants learned that they could grow potatoes in their fallow fields during crop rotation, then discovered an acre of potatoes could feed as many people as four acres of the rye that they traditionally planted. Peasants soon found another of the advantages of the potato: It could be left in the ground all winter without harvesting it. Ripe grain must be harvested and stored, becoming an easy target for civilian tax collectors or military requisitioners. Potatoes could be left in the ground until the day they were eaten, thereby provid-ing peasants with much greater security. The steady growth of German population compared with France during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (with





tremendous historic implications) is partly the result of this peasant decision and the educational work of agronomists such as Antoine Parmentier, who showed its merits in his Treatise on the Uses of the Potato. Just as the potato changed the history of Germany and Ireland, the introduction of maize changed other regions. Historians of the Balkans credit the nutritional advantages of maize with the population increase and better health that facilitated the Serbian and Greek struggles for independence

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dan Jerman utara, pendek dan hujan musim panas sangat terbatas tanaman yang bisa tumbuh dan populasi yang dapat didukung. Petani Irlandia menemukan bahwa hanya satu acre kentang, ditanam di tanah yang miskin untuk biji-bijian, bisa mendukung penuh keluarga. Petani Jerman belajar bahwa mereka bisa tumbuh kentang di bidang bera mereka selama rotasi tanaman, kemudian menemukan acre kentang bisa memberi makan orang sebanyak empat acres dari gandum yang secara tradisional mereka ditanam. Petani segera menemukan lagi satu keuntungan dari kentang: Bisa tersisa di tanah sepanjang musim dingin tanpa panen itu. Gabah matang harus dipanen dan disimpan, menjadi sasaran empuk bagi pemungut pajak sipil atau requisitioners militer. Kentang bisa dibiarkan di dalam tanah sampai hari mereka makan, sehingga provid-ing petani dengan keamanan yang jauh lebih besar. Pertumbuhan yang stabil dari penduduk Jerman dibandingkan dengan Perancis selama abad kedelapan belas dan kesembilan belas (dengan implikasi bersejarah yang luar biasa) adalah sebagian hasil dari keputusan petani ini dan pekerjaan pendidikan agronomi seperti Antoine Parmentier, yang menunjukkan manfaat dalam Treatise on the Penggunaan Kentang ini. Sama seperti kentang mengubah sejarah Jerman dan Irlandia, pengenalan jagung berubah daerah lain. Sejarawan dari Balkan kredit keuntungan gizi jagung dengan peningkatan populasi dan kesehatan yang lebih baik yang difasilitasi perjuangan Serbia dan Yunani untuk kemerdekaan