For years, we have educated people to appreciate and nurture the environment. In the case of the farmers' fields, I'm only too aware of the fact that where the greenery disappears, the concrete moves in. That is not how any of us would want to see the future face of our country. Semiat also believes that eliminating the agricultural industry would be detrimental to the country's interests. Their calculations do not take into account the thousands of people employed not just in farming itself but in related industries, such as the canning and freezing of agricultural products and so forth, which bring in billions of dollars from local sales and growing exports.
Most Western countries do subsidize farming, either through cheaper water rates or other means.
If this were to be stopped and farmers decided that cultivating their crops was no longer economically viable, thousands of people would be out of work. The Treasury officials claim that many food products can be imported more cheaply than being produced here. Even if quotas to farmers were cut to the absolute minimum, he said, there is not enough water to meet the country's needs. We have to move into the era of seawater desalination and make more efficient use of purified sewage for irrigation in order to have water to drink, to provide food for ourselves and to live in a green and pleasant environment and not in a desert. Click here to comment on this article.