No other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture.

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.

With the gun you can make the earth red but if you have a plough you can make the earth green.

We will link farmers to global markets. We will give the world the Taste of India.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

The second Green Revolution will take place in eastern India, including here in eastern Uttar Pradesh.