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Green Revolution

Norman Borlaug's high-yield wheat varieties (1960s) saved a billion lives from famine

Global ๐ŸŒ 1960 Agriculture & Crops

Key Facts

  1. 1

    Norman Borlaug developed high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties in the 1940sโ€“60s

  2. 2

    Green Revolution in India (1960s): M.S. Swaminathan introduced Borlaug's wheat โ€” ended India's famines

  3. 3

    Food production tripled 1960โ€“2000; without the Green Revolution, hundreds of millions would have starved

๐ŸŽ Did you know? Norman Borlaug is called "the man who saved a billion lives" and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970

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Agriculture & Crops

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๐ŸŒ Global

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1960

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Norman Borlaug's high-yield wheat varieties (1960s) saved a billion lives from famine

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