Approach Quote by Masanobu Fukuoka

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

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

— Michael Pollan

Organic farming and other earlier methods can be effective, provided they can help us improve soil health and plant health. Plant pesticides like neem…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

— Kofi Annan

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

— Masanobu Fukuoka

It's important to concede that modern pesticides have helped to make farming more productive and to increase yields.

— Chuck Norris

“if you have low crop diversity, you will run into problems and require inputs, which means more technology. In the meantime, nature’s going to…

— Judith D. Schwartz

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more…

— Nina Fedoroff

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control.

— Aldo Leopold

When harvests are exuberant, joy and health follow in their train; but let delusive prosperity draw industry from agriculture; let an insiduous disease attack…

— Elias Hasket Derby

We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle…

— Diane Ackerman