Without Food, Man At Most

During The Past Three Years Spectacular Progress Has Been Made In Increasing Wheat, Rice, And Maize Production In Several Of The Most Populous Developing Countries Of Southern Asia, Where Widespread Famine Appeared Inevitable Only Five Years Ago

Contrasting Sharply, In The Developing Countries Represented By India, Pakistan, And Most Of The Countries In Asia And Africa, Seventy To Eighty Percent Of The Population Is Engaged In Agriculture, Mostly At The Subsistence Level.

Some Of The Environmental Lobbyists Of The Western Nations Are The Salt Of The Earth, But Many Of Them Are Elitists. They Have Never Experienced The Physical Sensation Of Hunger. They Do Their Lobbying From Comfortable Office Suites In Washington Or Brussels. If They Lived Just One Month Amid The Misery Of The Developing World, As I Have For Fifty Years, They Would Be Crying Out For Tractors, And Fertilizer, And Irrigation Canals, And Be Outraged That Fashionable Elitists Back Home Were Trying To Deny Them These Things.

Cereal Production In The Rain-fed Areas Still Remains Relatively Unaffected By The Impact Of The Green Revolution, But Significant Change And Progress Are Now Becoming Evident In Several Countries

Man's Survival, From The Time Of Adam And Eve Until The Invention Of Agriculture, Must Have Been Precarious Because Of His Inability To Ensure His Food Supply.