When a low-income economy develops, uncultivated land becomes scarce, leading to food shortages, which is the first agricultural problem. This problem can be resolved by technological change, such as the Green Revolution, which increases food production from the same area of land. When an economy develops further, income gaps between rural and urban areas emerge and widen, as the nonfarm sector grows faster than the farm sector. This is the second agricultural problem. According to the Asian experience, governments support agriculture by raising product prices and providing subsidies. As a result, small-scale, labor-intensive farms are preserved, even though wage rates increase and labor-saving mechanization offers high payoffs. Subsequently, the food self-sufficiency ratio declines and food imports increase due to the preservation of inefficient small farms, which is the third agricultural problem. This has huge implications for addressing the hunger and poverty issues in the world, as agricultural markets are globally highly interconnected.