Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.

The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.

I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.

Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.

There are creative ways to create pathways to sufficiency for families in need. To do so, we need to work together to implement good ideas.

I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.

We are not intoxicated by power. We are concerned about the betterment of the poor, marginalised, oppressed, farmers, women, those living in villages, and every section of society.

It's critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.

Agriculture can trigger job-led economic growth, provided it becomes intellectually satisfying and economically rewarding.

Growth in village economies is often ignored. It should not be.

My government is giving residential, health facilities to poor as poverty can be removed only by empowering them.

International consumers can rest assured that their quinoa purchases have benefited some of Latin America's poorest people, together with their families.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through home production and storage, but others as well.