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Many tribes of the America's farmed long before Columbus was born; in fact central American tribes had (horticulture) research stations built to study growth requirements of potatoes. They also farmed cocco, tomato's, corn, etc.
The "Milpa" crop system grows far more calories per acre than traditional European farming; but, you cannot use a machine to farm that way so it is not used.

I would also add, that Europeans learned a lot about farming from Native Americans.

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