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President Peres at the UN: "We Share the Burden of Saving the World from War and Hunger"

(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Israeli President Shimon Peres told the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York on Monday: "We developed an agriculture based on science. Our farmers produce 8-fold per acre compared with the nation's early days. The need for water was cut in half. We employed desalination, recycling, drip and electronic irrigation and bio-engineering to create new seeds and richer crops." "Five decades ago, an Israeli farmer produced food for 15 persons. Today, he produces for 120. The farmer's contribution to the GDP equals that of a high-tech engineer....We are also one of the only countries in the world that entered the 21st century with more trees than it had when it entered the 20th century."
2010-09-21 08:53:41
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