122—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 21,1979
Food supply may determine world peace outlook
CHICAGO - During a
recent meeting here of some
of the nation’s top farmers,
an agricultural scientist said
that long-term world peace -
will be largely affected by
food supply.
Dr. Charles Krull, vice
president ot com research
for DeKalb Agßesearch,
Inc., told a gathering of top
com farmers and some of
the nation’s farm media that
the importance of
agriculture in the world
picture has virtually gone
unnoticed.
“Within the past decade
only,” Krull said, “there has
been an increased
realization that the food
supply is much less abun
dant and reliable in the rest
of the world. Perhaps 30 per
cent of the world population
get enough to eat, another
third have an inadequate
diet while the remainder live
on the verge of actual
starvation.”
The scientist said that an
adequate food supply is the
basis for not only civilization
as we brow it, but also
serves as a basis for world
peace.
“Many of our fellow
co’iutrymen often seem to
lose sight of this,” Krull
explained, “and there is
often confusion about the
priorities in our most basic
industry.”
, The former Rockefeller
Foundation researcher went
on to say he understands
why there is confusion. Smce
food and fiber are produced
by such a small percentage
of the population, many
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agriculture is all about, claims Dr. Charles Krull of
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need to be put into better perspective, the
researcher says.
Americans have no concept
of what agriculture is about.
“Farmers comprise about
two per cent of our
population, which means
that each U.S. farmer feeds
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“Americans do not realize
how important it is to this
country. Although most
people here, as well as
abroad, think of the U.S. as
an industrialized society, a
high percentage of our ex
port income is from grain,”
Krull said. “And,
agricultural exports were
the one high spot in our
dismal 1978 balance-of
payments picture.”
Krull, who once was a
working colleague of Dr.
Norman Borlaug, winner of
the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize,
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said that the response in the
world press to this 1970
peace prize was gratifying,
but he has been “shocked
and angered” by subsequent
criticisms by so-called in
tellectuals.
“What they maintain is
that it was a mistake to
introduce high input
agriculture to these coun
tries when there is a world
shortage of energy and that
these people are even now,
worse off in foodsupply than
before,” the executive said.
He added that this can
easily be shown to be a
fallacy and explained why.
“Prior to 1968, the highest
national production in India
was 12 million tons of wheat.
With the introduction of
fertilizer-responsive wheat
varieties and the use of
fertilizer, that rose to nearly
30 million tons in five short
years. Literally millions of
people have been saved from
certain death by starvation.
“What these so-called
experts are really saying,
although they don’t have the
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