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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
Zac Goldsmith
Time
Food
Animal
Welfare
Free
Cruelty
Country
Elsewhere
Market
Our
System
High
High Standards
Free Market
Import
Undermining
Doing
Impose
Same
Same Time
Really
Farmers
Standards
Reasonably
Exporting
Applied
Britain
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
M. S. Swaminathan
Government
Result
Only
Gives
Balanced
Subsidies
Farmers
Apply
I love prehistory - particularly the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. These were times when our ancestors made a revolutionary change from being hunter-gatherers to being farmers, and when great migrations of people spread languages - and genes - across Europe.
Alice Roberts
Love
Great
Change
Age
People
Made
Our
Ancestors
I Love
Bronze
Genes
Particularly
Spread
Were
Times
Revolutionary
Being
Migration
Prehistory
Across
Languages
Farmers
Europe
You can classify farmers into two major groups. One who saves seeds for the next crop and the other who purchases seeds from the market. Most of the commercial farmers like the US farmers are people who purchase seeds.
M. S. Swaminathan
You
People
Other
Saves
Market
Purchase
Purchases
Seeds
Crop
Classify
Major
Like
Most
Commercial
Us
Next
Farmers
Who
Groups
Two
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
M. S. Swaminathan
Food
Inflation
Country
Half
Recommendation
Kinds
Eat
Constitute
Given
Price
Implementing
Like
Excuses
Also
Been
Question
Governments
Working
Farmers
Who
Population
Nearly
Need
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap.
M. S. Swaminathan
Alone
Opportunities
Area
Ultimately
Debt
Farmers
Trap
Multiple
Livelihood
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.
M. S. Swaminathan
Own
Farm
Several
Area
Dry
Parts
May
Depends
Land
Produce
Farmers
Marketing is a major headache for farmers.
Sreenivasan
Marketing
Headache
Major
Farmers
Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that relies on a huge government subsidy, thanks to Ronald Reagan's free market enthusiasms.
Noam Chomsky
Government
Free
Thanks
Market
Enthusiasms
Free Market
Haitian
Reagan
Huge
Efficient
Quite
Subsidy
Rice
Farmers
Compete
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.
Abhijit Banerjee
Money
Will
Some
Implemented
Well
Leave
Hands
Poor
Farmers
Being from a small farmers' town, going back and forth to Mexico, hours waiting in the line to cross back home and training for hours, that's why I represent Mexicali because it means a lot to me.
Andy Ruiz Jr.
Home
Me
Waiting
Training
Back
Cross
Small
Town
Hours
Because
Line
Lot
Mexico
Going
Represent
Being
Forth
Means
Farmers
Why
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