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If a farmer wishes to succeed, he must try to keep a wide gap between his consumption and his production. He must store a large quantity of grain ---|||________|||--- consuming all his grain immediately. He can continue to support himself and his family ---|||________|||--- he produces a surplus. He must use this surplus in three ways: as seed sowing, as an insurance ---|||________|||--- the unpredictable effects of bad weather and as a commodity which he must sell in order to ---|||________|||--- old agricultural implements and obtain chemical fertilizers to ---|||________|||--- the soil. He may also need money to construct irrigation ---|||________|||--- and improve his farm in other ways. If no surplus is available, a farmer cannot be ---|||________|||--- . He must either sell some of his property or ---|||________|||--- extra funds in the m of loans. Naturally he will try to borrow money at a low ---|||________|||--- of interest, but loans of this kind are not ---|||________|||--- obtainable.