“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.”
Quote by Norman Borlaug
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Norman Borlaug
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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