Saladman posted:

I'd guess that if a ton of trees can grow in an area for millions of years, and it's not some super marginal desert-style forest like Joshua Tree National Park, there's probably some sort of crop that could be grown there that would be useful for people, but I don't really know anything about agriculture or farming. I'd be surprised if the vast majority of Venezuela's forest wasn't at least decent agricultural land, besides forests directly on top of tepuis or whatever, but it's not something I've ever looked into or read about either. That plateau in the southeast doesn't look like it's any higher than most of Colombia, which is full of plantations everywhere, but maybe there's some reason it fundamentally sucks for agriculture (besides it just being incredibly remote and there being no infrastructure, which obviously is a practical limit in the short and medium term).