• angband@lemmy.world
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    The us plants about 2.3 trillion corn plants per year. 25,000 per acre, 95,000,000 acres. Considering they plant 68,000,000 trees per year just for paper, in the US, the numbers aren’t shocking. Worldwide tree nurseries probably dwarf that 1.6 billion, maybe.

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      68 million is a pretty far cry from 1,695 million.

      But the US plants around 1.3 billion a year, so China’s number isn’t shocking