Agriculture investing

To complete the formulation of the global scenario describing the level of food provision for Homo sapiens, consider the law of changing stock-breeding productivity. Suppose that with the constant constituent kFSi, it increases in proportion with agricultural investments qVi with the coefficient kF-t and has the varying-in-time constituent with an exponential law of change ... 

Many industry actors and a number of trade associations have called for their governments to set up designated funds for low-cost investment in the pharmaceutical sector. One example is in Ghana, where in 2014 the President announced that Cedis 50 million would be set aside from the Export Development and Agriculture Investment Fund (EDAIF) for soft loans to the pharmaceutical sector (with recent currency depreciation this is now equivalent to less than USD 20 million). The government of Nigeria proposed a Naira 200 billion (roughly USD 100 million) fund to support the sector, but this has yet to materialize. 

In agriculture, the average benefit/cost ratio from insecticide use ranges from 3 to 5 return for every 1 invested by the farmer(s). There are many examples where the return is much greater. In California, treatment of sugarbeets with granular phorate systemic insecticide to control the aphid and... 

Each year the use of pesticides in U.S. agriculture costs the nation about 4.1 billion (15). This cost Includes the cost of the chemical plus that of application. Approximately 16 billion worth of crops is saved through the application of pesticides. Thus, for every dollar invested in pesticides about 4 is returned in protected crops. 

Therefore, sound pohcies should be reluctant to invest in agricultural water reuse schemes. Other options, such as urban or industrial uses as well as indirect potable reuse are much more likely to be economically justified. 

The United States occupies the preeminent scientific position in the "new" biology. If America is to derive the maximum benefit of its investment in basic biological research—whether in the form of better health, improved agriculture, a cleaner environment, or more efficient production of chemicals—it must also assume a preeminent position in biochemical and biomedical engineering. This can be accomplished by carrying out generic research in the following areas ... 

There is a tremendous financial investment in our agriculture. The place which this country occupies in world leadership today is due in part to our food-producing capacity. To maintain that position at a time when portentous predictions are rife regarding an overpopulated world, we need ever-improved chemical aids, but we must, at the same time, impair neither the quantity nor quality of our orchards and vineyards. Frequently it takes 10 to 20 years or even more before we see the ultimate effects of continued usage of chemicals on plants. The financial and social losses which can result from improper or unduly hasty use of chemicals should temper profits with caution. 

The apple crop of the nation, representing an investment by commercial growers of about 750,000,000 in land and trees alone, and with a crop averaging 240,000,000 to 250,000,000 a year during the past 5 years, is entirely dependent on the use of agricultural chemicals to control insects and diseases. 

Every country in the world has found reason to have a patent system. It is intended as an incentive system, an incentive for a major aspect of the economy that which has to do with new products and new ideas, the commercial use of new ideas, and the investment of risk capital in new products. This incentive is more important in some fields than in others. For example, in the pharmaceutical and pesticide fields, one wonders whether there would even be private research without patents. Many people think not—or not on the present scale, but then the government, HEW, and the Department of Agriculture might fill the... 

After eight years, Lavoisier calculated the rate of return on his investment. It was less than 5 percent. He concluded that this was no doubt the reason that the well-off farmers living near Paris who manage to save some money prefer to place it in public loans and funds rather than use it for the improvement of agriculture. There was another obstacle to improvement, too, Lavoisier noted the tax... 

When David asked me where I thought the human race should be focusing its scientific efforts, my first inclination for scientific investment was to consider all the standard or obvious areas of basic research aimed at alleviating or understanding disease, world hunger, and environmental problems—and research in synthetic fuels and agriculture. However, because we are already directing money toward most of... 

The sea level and climatic changes may cause a redistribution of agricultural and forestry resources, a considerable shift in population centres, and incalculable investments in habitat and property protection. 

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