Thomas Malthus Quotes

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.

We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

The agricultural interest of our country is so essentially connected with every other and so superior in importance to them all that it is scarcely necessary to invite to it your particular attention.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

… whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

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.

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

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

The slogan that agriculture is the backbone of the nation still remains in theory and not in practice.

The most serious domestic matter facing the United States today is the decline in agricultural income

The welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Improving the productivity of crops is fundamental to ending extreme poverty. Sixty percent of people in sub-Saharan Africa earn their living by working the land. But given the region’s generally low agricultural productivity—yields of basic cereals are five times higher in North America—Africa remains a net importer of food. This gap between supply and demand will only grow as the number of mouths to feed increases.

Looking ahead, the bright spot in Indian agriculture is the availability of a large untapped production reservoir.

I will always be a relentless advocate for our farmers, producers, and our way of life.

Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

Agriculture specialists say our farm production is increasing and will go on increasing. Thank God.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

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.