ABSTRACT
The word "rapid" belongs in this topic because it emphasizes the pressing needs for sustenance in the world. In addition to food, agriculture produces fibers, industrial raw materials, and other products useful to man; in many instances more than one of these agricultural products are produced in combination on the same farms. A distinctive feature of agriculture as an industry is that it involves a particular production process, but not the production of a particular commodity. The "farming district" should be adopted as the normal geographic unit for agricultural planning and for public aqrisupport action programs. Activities to spur agricultural growth should be tailored to the most pressing needs in each farming district, especially taking into account which areas have an immediate, a future, ora low potential for agricultural growth. Agricultural growth also, and more spectacularly, occurs in dramatic spurts whenever the last essential element for production expansion is made available in a particular region.
