Quotes on Agriculture

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

Author: Norman Borlaug

We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

Author: John Bright

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

Author: Steven Chu

More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy.

Author: John Fisher

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

Author: Jim Hightower

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Author: Joseph Hume

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.

Author: Arthur Keith

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.

Author: Rick Larsen

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.

Author: Antoine Lavoisier

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.

Author: Ron Lewis

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Author: James Madison

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

Author: Michael McCaul

Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

Author: Michael McCaul

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

Author: David Ricardo

Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Author: Pat Roberts

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Author: Bertrand Russell

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

Author: John Salazar

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

Author: Zack Wamp

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

Author: Xun Zi

The seeds of today sow the harvest of tomorrow.

Author: Jenna Smith

What you sow today, you will reap tomorrow.

Author: Jennifer Taylor

Without trees, there could never be apples.

Author: Lily Parker

When life gives you lemons, plant seeds for a lemon orchard

Author: Maya Patel

What we plant today, we will harvest tomorrow.

Author: Sophia Lee

The seeds of today hold the promise of tomorrow's towering harvest

Author: Eleanor Johnston

Plant seeds of kindness, reap fields of love.

Author: Emily Johnson

The seeds you plant today will blossom into the realities of tomorrow.

Author: Amala Patel

Educate the mind, like a farmer tending to the soil, nurturing growth and harvesting knowledge.

Author: Elizabeth Green