This is the question once asked by our MBA professor in our Agri-Business class.  Obviously, my answer would be a very big YES!  According to its definition, agriculture refers to the production of goods through the growing of plants, animals and other life forms. To elaborate further, it is a system consisting of several processes of producing goods from plants, animals and other forms of life to provide for our basic human needs: food, shelter and clothing.  These processes include planting of seeds, pruning, harvesting, processing and marketing of finished goods, in terms of plants.  On the other hand, growing animals also include selecting of breed, feeding, proper care and sheltering, breeding, processing and marketing of produce.  Plants and animals provide us our food and clothing. Plants are sources of our shelter.

We are very much blessed with vast lands. The resources are all in there. If many will cultivate their lands, plant crops and raise animals, then plenty of mouths will be fed. No empty stomachs, no more starvations, no one is homeless and no more poverty.

Agriculture, indeed, can cure poverty.