Vinod Khosla Quotes

People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.

We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.

The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.

So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.

If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands.

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.

We grow our own vegetables.

I want to pursue farming, and what better place to do it than at a hill station, which has a cool climate almost through the year.

Naturally healthy soil can sustain coffee crops for generations to come. All of this contributes to the quality of the bean.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem and tobacco need to be promoted.

It would be so simple for the government to support farmers to become more profitable and farm sustainably.

Let's get government support for farmers to make the transition to organic.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

We have to stop treating soil like dirt.

Some environmentalists demands are counter productive. Avoiding pesticides for example means farming more land less efficiently, which leads to higher prices, more hunger, more disease …, and less biodiversity.

If we didn't have a sustainable agriculture industry, who would be paying the then-missing taxes to support our defence, police, roads, airports, elderly, parks, public sporting facilities and much more?

It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.