This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.

We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

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

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

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.