Agriculture is a primary activity. It includes growing crops, fruits, vegetables, flowers, and the rearing of livestock. Agriculture is the source of food and fodder for the world; it is one of the oldest human practices that date back thousands of years.
Agriculture has a significant impact on society. It plays a crucial role in the economic development of a country, providing employment and economic opportunities. In India, agriculture is the backbone of our economy. It is the main traditional occupation of our country.
Agriculture impacts society in many ways, including supporting livelihoods through food, habitat, and jobs and providing raw materials for food and other products. Agriculture also influences the social structures and lifestyles of communities, affecting their health and food consumption. Agriculture can also improve soil fertility by adding organic matter or nutrients through crop rotation.
Agriculture contributes to several environmental issues that cause environmental degradation including climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, irrigation problems, pollutants, soil degradation and waste. There is a need to increase awareness regarding agriculture among people to stop them from practising any bad habits to reduce the level of land pollution. In such cases, Quotes play a nice role in motivating people very easily during any event or campaign celebration.
I have put together a list of amazing and greatest quotes on agriculture for a better and greener world.
50 Amazing Quotes on Agriculture -
- “A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud” - Amit Kalantri
- “Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.” - Masanobu Fukuoka
- “When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” - Masanobu Fukuoka
- “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.” - Masanobu Fukuoka
- “The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.” - Frances Moore Lappe
- “If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.” - M.S. Swaminathan
- “Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it’s the production of food and fibre from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture, it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.” - Allan Savory
- “We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.” - Cesar Chavez
- “The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.” -Arthur Keith
- “Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.” - Samuel Johnson
- “Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of homegrown food.” - M.S. Swaminathan
- “Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in the industry, defence, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement,” - Christopher Bond
- “Agriculture needs to be modernized to give work to youth, women and men from the country.” - Jovenel Moise
- “There is no time for modern agriculture for a farmer to write a poem or compose a song.” - Masanobu Fukuoka
- “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.” - Winona LaDuke
- “Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don’t realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.” - Michael Pollan
- “Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.” - M.S. Swaminathan
- “I’ve farmed all my life and I have big ideas on how to grow agriculture jobs in West Virginia.” - Jim Justice
- “Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.” - Alfred Nobel
- “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.” - Michael Mccaul
- “Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.” - Abhijit Banerjee
- “Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry, from agriculture and education to health care, domestic work, construction, food processing, technology, and many more.” - Alex Padilla
- “Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and the overall economy is real.” - Pat Roberts
- “Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.” - Paul Polman
- “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.” - John Bright
- “In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.” - Carol P. Christ
- “Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.” - Craig Venter
- “Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts. - Zazie Beetz
- “Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.” - Wendell Berry.
- “Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.” - Jeremy Grantham
- “Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it’s never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.” - Dan Barber
- “Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.” - Jim Costa
- “Agriculture is a sleeping giant. We have so many opportunities for commercial feedlots on reclaimed mine sites, possibilities for taking advantage of our waters, and the chance to solve our forestry issues- it’s all right at our fingertips.” - Jim Justice
- “I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They’re talking about the diets of children, but they’re talking about Band-Aids. We’re seeing a vision.” - Alice Waters
- “We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.” - Alice Waters
- “Before agriculture was invented, land was not a resource. Before oil drilling and nuclear fission were invented, petroleum and uranium were not resources.” - Robert Zubrin
- “I believe that agriculture land-productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.” - Michael Burry
- “To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.” - Jakaya Kikwete
- “Profits might also increase because improvement might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.” - David Ricardo
- “We’re the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.” - Dwayne Andreas
- “Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.” - Joel Salatin
- “We have to devise ways to lower the cost of production and reduce the risks involved in agriculture such as pests, pathogens, and weeds,” - M.S. Swaminathan
- “Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.” - Zach Wamp
- “I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.” - John Salazar
- “My niche will be to support the environment through the growth of organic agriculture.” - Nell Newman
- “I think every business should build on their strengths, and the strengths of Victoria are our clean, green agriculture; the strength of Victoria are our strong education system.” - Denis Napthine
- “A form of protectionism should be enforced at the national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.” - Marion Marechal-Le Pen
- “The oceans produce up to 70 per cent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation’s entire agriculture sector.” - Frances Beinecke
- “On the Agricultural Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.” - Chris Gibson
- “Starting as a few bands of hunter-gatherers, humanity expanded the food resources afforded by the land a thousandfold through the development of agriculture.” - Robert Zubrin
