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See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Income
#Policy
#See
#Synergy
#Technology
Where there is a challenge there has to be a response.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Challenge
#Response
#Where
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
#Important
#Now
#Progress
Farmers are happy so long as their net income will not be adversely affected. In organic farming, in the first couple of years you may drop in yield until you build up the soil fertility - you need inputs for output.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Build
#Happy
#Long
#Need
#Will
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Farmers
#Important
#Management
#Training
Genetic modification is a very powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, when using it, you have to take into account the environmental impact, the food safety aspects and so on. There must be a strong regulatory mechanism.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Environmental
#Food
#Impact
#Safety
Wireless technology has completely revolutionized information transmission and exchange in India. If you go in the coastal areas, small-scale fishermen who go out in small boats, they now carry a cellphone, which has GPS data on wave heights, where the fish are, et cetera.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Fish
#Heights
#Information
#Technology
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Food
#Future
#Past
#Security
#Today
There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Green
#Need
#Revolution
#Sight
#Talk
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
#Agriculture
#Alone
#Animal
#Look
#Will
Micronutrient deficiency in the soil results in micronutrient malnutrition in people, since crops grown on such soils tend to be deficient in the nutrients needed to fight hidden hunger.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Fight
#Hidden
#Hunger
#People
#Soil
Contract farming can be promoted if it is structured on the basis of a win-win situation both for the producer and the purchaser.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Contract
#Farming
#Producer
#Situation
Leadership is something which other people have to recognize. You cannot demand that I am a leader.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#I Am
#Leadership
#People
#Something
One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Blessings
#Experience
#Knowledge
#Rich
In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Agriculture
#Australia
#Food
#Security
Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Agriculture
#Economic Growth
#Growth
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Crop
#Farming
#Fate
#Profession
#World
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
#Agriculture
#Challenges
#Today
#Water
I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Future
#Grains
#Guns
#Nations
#Out
The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Age
#Education
#Father
#Medical
#Myself
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
#Country
#Food
#Foundation
#Home
#People
A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcredit agencies have been charging interest rates not very dissimilar to those charged by moneylenders. Borrowing then becomes more to meet pressing consumption needs, rather than for farming or small-scale enterprises.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Finance
#Interest
#Meet
#More
#Needs
If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Agriculture
#Chance
#Go
#Nothing
#Will
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, Parliament is likely to pass the National Food Security Bill which will be the world's largest social protection measure against hunger.
- M. S. Swaminathan
#Anniversary
#Food
#Security
#Will
#World
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