A landowner owns two identical plots of land. A single plot, when worked by the landowner, yields 1000 kg of grain. The landowner decides to work one plot themselves and lease the second plot to a sharecropper, who must pay 50% of their harvest as rent. According to a model where a farmer's work effort is directly proportional to the percentage of the harvest they keep, what is the total combined grain output from both plots under this arrangement?
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