Top 212 Agriculture Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Agriculture Quotes from famous people such as Stephen Kinzer, Arancha Gonzalez, Jon Tester, Ronny Jackson, Thomas P.M. Barnett, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Am

Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.
Stephen Kinzer
In their pursuit of growth and diversification, African economies should consider transforming the discourse from a focus on industrialisation to a broader one centred on value addition in agriculture, manufacturing, and services.
Arancha Gonzalez
Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.
Jon Tester
In Texas, agriculture production is critical for our economy and food supply.
Ronny Jackson
The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It’s going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA – thousands standing around.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
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.
Bertrand Russell
I’m going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow ’em, we’re going to sell ’em.
Sonny Perdue
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
Martin Heidegger
As you all know, agriculture is my priority. You all know this, I have just said it.
Jovenel Moise
Gluten intolerance and celiac disease are direct results of American agriculture policy and, specifically, the government’s wading into the food arena.
Joel Salatin
Man’s survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug
In Georgia, agriculture is one area where Democrats and Republicans consistently reached across the aisle and work together.
Sonny Perdue
If you’re using first-class land for biofuels, then you’re competing with the growing of food. And so you’re actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
Bill Gates
Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
Allan Savory
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it’s a McDonald’s in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
Alice Waters
People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.
Sharad Pawar
We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn’t recognize value, it’s contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it’s done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
Alice Waters
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
Jakaya Kikwete
I realised the animal agriculture industry is actually awful and tragic and I can’t bear to be a part of that. The environmental impact of the agriculture industry, the health impact on us, there’s all the reasons.
Montaigne
India’s lifeline is the farmers and its agriculture system, and destroying them would mean an end for the country’s food security and self-sufficiency.
Amarinder Singh
Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world’s population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed – many of them depending on American agriculture.
Debbie Stabenow
Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and profitable option for their fields.
Cory Gardner
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
Paul Polman
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.
Jim Costa
I’ve been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.
Marcia Fudge
Securing a sustainable, safe food supply and supporting the agriculture industry at home and abroad enables the United States to serve as a global leader in national security.
Will Hurd
I want to highlight that Italy, every year, sends 6 billion euros in cash to Brussels. I cannot give these 6 billion euros to Brussels and then let them damage us on the fronts of agriculture, migration, fishing, commerce and finance. Why am I giving 6 billion to receive nothing in return?
Matteo Salvini
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
Christopher Bond
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Ralph Merkle
As a farmer, I understand firsthand the challenging circumstances the COVID-19 pandemic has created within our agriculture community.
Mike Parson
Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experien

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition.
Richard Lamm
There are two major challenges before Indian agriculture today: ecological and economical. The conservation of our basic agricultural assets such as land, water, and biodiversity is a major challenge. How to make agriculture sustainable is the challenge.
M. S. Swaminathan
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.
James Madison
A form of protectionism should be enforced at national level, at least on strategic areas such as agriculture.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other – and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism.
Lydia Millet
Afghanistan has the capacity to become an industrialized country because of its mining and agriculture sectors. We can also create jobs for educated men and women by investing in information technology.
Ashraf Ghani
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.
Bertrand Russell
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.
Rick Larsen
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Edward Thorndike
As a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee it has been important to me to intersect with Hoosier farmers as often as possible.
Mike Braun
Agriculture drives most people crazy. It keeps me sane.
Jon Tester
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.
M. S. Swaminathan
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 home grown food.
M. S. Swaminathan
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
I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.
Chris Blackwell
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
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Fidel Castro
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Fidel Castro
If we win, we’ll make history, and I’ll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.
George Nethercutt
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.
M. S. Swaminathan
While the developed world has shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and then to services, the number of jobs has always climbed.
Alain Dehaze
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
Christopher Bond