Quotes About Agriculture

Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.

In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.

The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.

It's no good kicking progress In the teeth - there's nothing wrong with a tractor.

I own a ranch in Texas, so there's always something to do as far as work goes, whether it's tractor stuff or tearing down fence.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

I drove a tractor almost as soon as I could reach the pedals.

It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

U.S. agricultural products, including safe, high-quality Montana beef, face unscientific trade restrictions in many important markets.

What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.

We want to ensure that food is traded better, farmers get a better price, and consumers are able to access it at affordable prices.

Let's get rid of all our subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our agricultural subsidies together.

old pear tree starlings announce harvest time

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.