ABSTRACT
The Agricultural Development Council is concerned primarily about the economic and human problems of agricultural development in Asia. Most of the farmers of Asia among whom this agricultural development would have to take place are subsistence farmers. Their farming is carried on more to provide food for the family, or for the village community or tribe, than it is for sale to an outside market. If this situation continues, very little agricultural development can occur, and the levels of living of the people on these farms cannot rise. For agricultural development to take place, it is essential, among several other necessities, that farms become less and less subsistence and more and more commercial, producing increasingly for the market. Subsistence farmers and their families, commercial farmers and theirs, are much more than cultivators. They are not a gray abstraction called Humanity; they are men and women with hopes and fears, capacities and creativity.
