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“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”

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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

“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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Author:Norman Borlaug

“During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago”

Source: Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad

“The same mistakes can never be repeated.”

Mistake Same Mistakes

Author:Roger Goodell

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