QUALITY OF ARABLE LAND NACH EUROPAS

belgium, north Italy

afaik Belgium wasn't particularly rich before they found coal in Wallonia which started the industrial revolution

for North Italy, their civilization also started and developed in the part with bad soil (central Italy), the North only kicked off much later but ok, let's say this is a right argument, still it's only one

industrialization destroyed soils, pretty obvious

Thats not how soils or industrialisation works

yeah you're right, good soil somehow prevented industrialization because there was no incentive. makes perfect sense.

>industrialization destroyed soils

industrialization's impact on soil quality was rather limited to big cities and their nearby areas, my guess is that simply since both peasants and nobles lived relatively well off from selling agricultural goods in areas with good soil, they didn't feel a need to develop industry, change their habits, social system etc.

>padania plains better than south italy
it's a bullshit map

Thank you, captain obvious
Lol, lmao
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdn2ag-JNo
Agriculture destroys soil. Now we even have all the water leave the soils as aring is now too shallow causing water to “slip” from fields to drainage systems. Thus no water is retained in soil, and all the water goes through drainwage/waterway/whatever it is called systems into the sea.
This causes unprecedented droughts and rivers drying up.

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A lot of the good soil is flat as fuck, which makes it easy to conquer, so then you have easily conquerable land that also very valuable, which naturally makes their neighbors wanna take it over. That's literally the reason most of those countries are poor, having just repeatedly been made other Empires' bitches. Turks, Austrians or Russians taking turns on them.
Not necessarily, look at Denmark, Jutland has shit soil, but that's primarily because it's made of sand washed off of the Norwegian mountains by ice age glaciers. That still hasn't stopped Jutland from being covered 90% in farmland.

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>being covered 90% in farmland.

arent they focused on pig farming exactly because pigs aren't very demanding when it comes to food?

It's pretty grim to look at localized soil and water quality maps of cities. I think all the drinking water Copenhagen uses is from the opposite end of Zealand, because everything around Copenhagen is ridiculously poisoned with heavy metals.

Yes and no, there's a shit load of pigs, but also a lot of crops like wheat, rye, and canola. The pig farming helps that along as all their shit is used to fertilize the soil. So basically, at certain times a year, the whole country side just smells like pig shit. Sometimes cowshit, but often pig shit. Cowshit is pretty tolerable, but pig shit smells almost poisonous. We have a huge dairy industry too.