Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day.
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.
The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
As a society, we devalued farming as an occupation and encouraged the best students to leave the farm for 'better' jobs in the city. We emptied America's rural counties in order to supply workers to urban factories.
Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.
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