M. S. Swaminathan Quotes

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

Agricultural science is largely the contest between emerging pests and the emerging methods of their control.

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is no technology that is going to take that soil and transform it into something that is five times more productive.

To make agriculture sustainable, the grower has got to be able to make a profit.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Farming is not for the feint of heart. It is fraught with the possibility of failure.

I'm sure a majority of farmers do their best to follow safe practices, to read carefully chemical labels, to follow the law, and to try and ensure that they are making both safe and profitable decisions for their business.

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.

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

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

Weeds do become resistant to herbicides, and it needs to be managed with multiple herbicides.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.

If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

Even as the population doubled from three to six billion, we managed to race ahead with all kinds of technological and scientific events in agriculture - from using more fertilizers to mechanization to advanced plant breeding.

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.

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.

It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

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.