What would you grow on your piece of land?

Out of curiousity I divided what was grown and produced on the arable land in the world 2012 and divided it with 7 billion (the number of us), to see how much is grown for each one of us. Below you see the result. Each one of us has around 1,800 square meters and on that land just above a ton of crops is produced. This includes the production of animal feed and industrial crops, seeds etc, so you will not get to eat the whole lot.

You would grow wheat, maize, rice and soybeans on half of the land.On 50 square meters you would have tubers and you would use the same area for your cotton farm. A few oil palms would tower over your plot, two coconut trees and a cashew, a mango and an apple tree. Probably you would grow your  five coffee trees and the two cocoa trees under their shade. And don't forget a rubber tree, for your wheels or condoms. Bananas, tobacco, onions and tomato will fight for the same space. You need a lot of space for the not so productive oil crops, rape seed and sunflower.

In terms of harvest, sugar cane is the heaviest load, one fourth of your output is cane, which you can process to your sugar, or perhaps make ethanol to your car - but it will not drive you far. You would only get some 20 liter of ethanol even if you diverted all your cane to ethanol and nothing for your candy. From all that cotton you would only get some three-four kg of cotton lint. How much do your clothes weigh?

You would have some 4,800 square meters for keeping a cow or some goats. And probably you would raise a pig together with your neighbor on crop residues and some of the maize. Perhaps you like chicken in which case you would convert a big part of the maize and soybeans to raise chicken. If you are a vegan, you would eat a considerable part of the soybeans and perhaps convert 100 kg of the maize also to ethanol, giving you another 35-40 liters to drive. Enjoy your share.

Crop	M2 in my plot	Production kg
Wheat	308	96
Maize	253	125
Rice, paddy	233	103
Soybeans	150	35
Barley	71	19
Sorghum	55	8
Seed cotton	50	11
Rapeseed	49	9
Millet	45	4
Beans, dry	42	3
Sugar cane	37	262
Sunflower seed	35	5
Groundnuts, with shell	35	6
Cassava	29	38
Potatoes	27	52
Vegetables, fresh nes	27	39
Oil, palm fruit	25	36
Chick peas	18	2
Coconuts	17	9
Cow peas, dry	16	1
Olives	15	2
Coffee, green	14	1
Cocoa, beans	14	1
Rubber, natural	14	2
Oats	14	3
Sweet potatoes	12	15
Sesame seed	11	1
Grapes	10	10
Peas, dry	9	1
Pulses, other	8	1
Rye	8	2
Plantains	8	5
Pigeon peas	8	1
Cashew nuts, with shell	8	1
Mangoes, mangosteens, guavas	7	6
Yams	7	8
Bananas	7	15
Sugar beet	7	39
Fruit, fresh other	7	4
Apples	7	11
Tomatoes	7	23
Tobacco, unmanufactured	6	1
Lentils	6	1
Onions, dry	6	12
Cereals, other	6	1
Oranges	5	10
Triticale	5	2
Watermelons	5	15
Tea	5	1
Fruit, tropical fresh other	4	3
Plums and sloes	4	2
Buckwheat	4	0
Broad beans, horse beans, dry	4	1
Linseed	4	0
Cabbages and other brassicas	3	10
Tangerines, mandarins, clementines, satsumas	3	4
Peas, green	3	3
Cucumbers and gherkins	3	9
Chillies and peppers, dry	3	0
The rest	86	10-20 kg
SUM	1888	1100