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“I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.”
“Their hands are tied not by ropes but by the greed of the intermediaries that the system has generated, who eat up the farmers income while it is on its way into his hands.”
“There was no denying the fact that the death of sugarcane was sounding the knell for something else in the country. What can we call it?”
“I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over d...”
“Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.”
“A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.”
“Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.”
“Blessed be agriculture! If one does not have too much of it.”
“When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of human civilization.”
“[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near Eas...”
“This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat.""It IS ho...”
“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.”
