In a Western industrialized society, man is more remote than ever from problems of seedtime and havest, of sowing and of growing crops.
And growing crops in sewage is a good way to transmit diseases to farmers and their customers-which is all the more worrying as even simple ailments like diarrhoea are often killers in poor countries.
It is somewhat like tidying up hair by each hair, cooking rice by each grain or growing crops on a hole made on a wall.
Moreover, for semi-arid or hilly land, modest levels of grazing may cause much less ecological damage than growing crops.
These floods have been very useful because they irrigate the Nile Delta and deposit a rich layer of topsoil used for growing crops.
He says people must be helped to return to their homes and begin growing crops.
