As University of California agricultural economist David Zilberman and his colleagues have written, the lost benefits are “irreversible, both in the sense that past harvests have been lower than they would have been if the technology had been introduced and in the sense that yield growth is a cumulative process of which the onset has been delayed.”
Como escribieron el economista agrícola David Zilberman y sus colegas de la Universidad de California, los beneficios perdidos son "irreversibles, tanto porque las cosechas pasadas han sido peores de lo que habrían sido si se hubiera introducido la tecnología como porque el crecimiento del rendimiento es un proceso acumulativo cuyo inicio estuvo retrasado".