A36>Lancasttr Farming, Saturday, May 7. 1994
High-Production Agriculture Can Save The Planet, Insists Analyst
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stock production. This
puts the demands on
growing more grain and
other crops.
The poultry industry
in Indonesia is expand
ing at double-digit rates,
according to Avery.
“In North Africa, it is
fed lamb. In Indonesia,
it is poultry meat,’* said
Avery. “But every
where there is apparent
ly an inherent human
appetite for the high
quality protein found in
livestock products.”
World population
keeps expanding, and
the world is about to
“triple its demands on
farming resources.
“With more people,
they’re all going to want
the high-quality protein
from your industries,”
he said.
In Asia alone, 2.5 bil
lion people are gaining
affluence more rapidly
than any large group of
people ever have in the
history of the planet.
If the world’s farm
trade barriers were
removed, according to
Avery, America could
trade to a tune of about
$lOO billion per year, of
which $5O-60 billion
could come from selling
more commodities
overseas.
“There’s no other
country that can expand
us agriculture output for
free trade like we
could,” he said.
Bui severe trade restr
ictions that other coun
tries have imposed are
doing more harm to the
environment than ever
before. For instance, in
Indonesia, they are busi
ly chainsawing tropical
forests to make room for
farmland to grow soy
beans for the broiler
enterprises that are
increasing exponential
ly, according to Avery.
Because of the rapid
ly changing demo
graphics and social
structures of many
countries (including the
end of the Cold War and
communism and the
rapid development of
so-called third world
countries), the U.S. has
stumbled over its poli
cies regarding free
trade. With the passage
ol the North American
Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) and the
steady progress of the
General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade
(GATT), more markets
are opening. But the
transition period has
become difficult.
“The U.S. has the
second dumbest farm
policy in history," said
Avery. “Stalin was
number 1, but he’s
retired.”
The U.S. has posi
tioned itself to become a
leader regarding high
producing agriculture
and could be the key to
t ceding the billions of
people that will exist in
the world of tomorrow.
being cut for research input, organic fanning”
He told the animal set- when the need is most has caused the
entists that we have the crucial for it. satd problems,
best technology, the Avery. For educators to get
best land, and the best Avery spent time agriculture s point of
infrastructure. doing research to yipw across, it may be
But we have the prob- debunlethe theory that necessary to let the
lems of the environmen- too many people have environmentalists know
talists, many who blame led to the demise of that wildlife, in the end,
the problems on too wildlife and the envi- could be saved by mak
many people ronment. He told them ing most intensive use
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Avery directs the
Center for Global Food
Issues at the Hudson
Institute, a think-tank
headquartered in India
napolis, Ind. Avery
served as senior agricul
tural analyst for the U.S.
Department of State and
policy analyst for the
USDA.
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