Guest guest Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 Investors in U S of A are financing agriculture. What is our Government doing to promote agriculture? The loan mela waiver may get votes but will not get any food grains. We continue to be dependent upon already depleted sources of ground water and moody Monsoons. Whatever ground water remains is unfit for agriculture or human consumption. Arsenic poisoning, contamination with pesticides and carcinogens. You name it, ground water has it. Rajinder Sandhir New York Times of June 5, 2008 THE FOOD CHAINFood Is Gold, and Investors Pour Billions Into Farming By DIANA B. HENRIQUESSome private investors are starting to make long-term bets that the world’s need for food will greatly increase — by buying farmland, fertilizer, grain elevators and shipping equipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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