The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.
Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.
In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.