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“To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.”

Quote by Norman Borlaug

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Norman Borlaug, born on March 25, 1914, and died on September 12, 2009, was an outstanding agricultural scientist. He is renowned for his contributions to wheat breeding and is often referred to as the 'Father of the Green Revolution'. Borlaug's work significantly increased global food production, playing a crucial role in alleviating the food crisis of the mid-20th century. more

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“The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.”

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“Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.”

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“We are 6.6 billion people now. We can only feed 4 billion. I don't see 2 billion volunteers to disappear.”

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“Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.”

“Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries”

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