Augustin Matata Ponyo Quotes

I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

In the Department of Agriculture, the use of scientific experiments on a large scale and the spread of information derived from them for the improvement of general agriculture must go on.

Farmer! Yesterday you could only work the land. Today, under the republic you can become an agricultural engineer!

The fundamental for the sustainable growth of Nigeria is not in the hydro-carbon industry but in agriculture.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

We're trying to bring improved seeds to rural villages to increase yields. We're also trying to improve the roads to make it easier for people to get their produce to the market.

The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.

Industrial agriculture freed many people to pursue lives their parents and grandparents could never have. It made America modern.

Most of the people in the world are poor, so if we knew the economics of being poor, we would know much of the economics that really matters. Most of the world's poor people earn their living from agriculture, so if we knew the economics of agriculture, we would know much of the economics of being poor.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

The agricultural interest of the country is connected with every other, and superior in importance to them all.

Consumers cannot enjoy the prices and variety we farmers produce without embracing the technologies we use.

Agricultural chemistry was not something that could be readily mastered by farmers, nor could the new machines be easily operated and maintained. Agricultural schools were needed to provide the necessary training. Then, if local gentry and rich households with large landholdings tried new methods—and if the new techniques were effective—the people will naturally follow them.

The land and agricultural industry is the backbone of Australia, and we need to foster the industry that provides our country with so much.

America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.

My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and become a farmer.

If we get agriculture right in Africa, where most of the people now are working in that sector, not only would it help boost development but we will be secure in terms of food and nutrition and then be able to move on to other areas.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.