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Down on the Farm
- 1984 ----- color ----- 57 min ----- 16mm/vhs
- (Nova series) Agriculture is distinguished from most other industries by its potential to be self-sustaining. Managed carefully, soil and water can be renewable. But this is not the way we farm today. NOVA explores the reasons why farmers, faced with soaring interest rates and falling farm profits, are forced to work their land harder, accelerating soil erosion and pumping ground water for irrigation at rates that cannot be replenished. Examines why farmers, agricultural scientists and policy makers are all caught in a system that pits the short-term need for profit against the long-term needs of the land.
- Topics: (Agriculture, Economics)
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