Crops Quote by David F. Houston

The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply.…

— Verghese Kurien

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration,…

— Ralph Merkle

The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better,

— Nina Fedoroff

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— Ralph Merkle

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much…

— Ramez Naam

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

— David F. Houston

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

— David Ricardo

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of…

— David F. Houston

Grow where you are planted

— Proverb

We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

— Joel Salatin

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer…

— Charles C. Mann

We need to transform our rural areas, restore the land to its rightful owners, and significantly grow our agricultural output.

— Cyril Ramaphosa