Agriculture looks different today - our farmers are using…

Long-established techniques in farming. There is no wastage in water unlike the usual irrigation systems

— Anne Del Rio

“The availability of irrigation systems to water the land and produce grain and other food crops was the material foundation for these two great…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Farmers grow on the land. I suppose farmers grow farmers, rather than using sex to reproduce.”

— Jarod Kintz

I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a…

— Norman Borlaug

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads…

— Michael Specter

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water…

— Saint Augustine

Our fish, our recreation, our irrigation and all our uses of the Missouri River are threatened if the drought continues and the Corps of…

— Mike Rounds

Globally, the highest number of irrigation projects are in India, and within the country, the highest number is in Maharashtra.

— Sharad Pawar

More than one-half of the world's major rivers are being seriously depleted and polluted, degrading and poisoning the surrounding ecosystems, thus threatening the health…

— Ismail Serageldin

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always largely been…

— Khaled Hosseini

Surrounded by a burgeoning human population, Asian elephants have to contend with the spread of settlements and farming, and the demands of rapidly developing…

— Mark Shand

“Too many people talk about the weather, and not enough people talk about agriculture. When somebody says to me, "Beautiful weather we're having,” I…

— Jarod Kintz

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

— Thomas Harris

It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the…

— William Sloane Coffin

I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing…

— Sheri L. Dew