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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&amp;rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &amp;lsquo;father&amp;rsquo; of the Green Revolution. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&amp;rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &amp;lsquo;father&amp;rsquo; of the Green Revolution. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, &lt;/font&gt;
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                <p align="justify"><font >World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/" title="http://www.cimmyt.org/">http://www.cimmyt.org/</a><font >) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><br /><font >The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp" title="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149<br />1641.jsp</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/" title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti<br />on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br /></font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug" title="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar<br />ding-death-norman-borlaug</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html" title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr<br />ess.html</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis" title="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian<br />-food-crisis</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf" title="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf" title="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy" title="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han<br />dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font></p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc" title="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut<br />ion_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</a> </p>               </font>
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, &lt;/font&gt;
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World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts...&#039;,
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&amp;rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &amp;lsquo;father&amp;rsquo; of the Green Revolution. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, &lt;/font&gt;
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World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts...&#039;
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                <p align="justify"><font >World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/" title="http://www.cimmyt.org/">http://www.cimmyt.org/</a><font >) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><br /><font >The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp" title="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149<br />1641.jsp</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/" title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti<br />on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br /></font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug" title="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar<br />ding-death-norman-borlaug</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html" title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr<br />ess.html</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis" title="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian<br />-food-crisis</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf" title="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf" title="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy" title="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han<br />dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font></p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc" title="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut<br />ion_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</a> </p>               </font>
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&amp;rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &amp;lsquo;father&amp;rsquo; of the Green Revolution. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &amp;lsquo;hunger&amp;rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&amp;rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &amp;lsquo;father&amp;rsquo; of the Green Revolution. &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Borlaug&amp;rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cimmyt.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cimmyt.org/&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India&#039;s second-highest civilian honour.&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt; &lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;
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Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font &gt;The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp&quot; title=&quot;http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp&quot;&gt;http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149&lt;br /&gt;1641.jsp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font &gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Father of &amp;lsquo;Green Revolution&amp;rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/&quot;&gt;http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti&lt;br /&gt;on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font &gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&quot; title=&quot;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug&quot;&gt;http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar&lt;br /&gt;ding-death-norman-borlaug&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot; title=&quot;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html&quot;&gt;http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr&lt;br /&gt;ess.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font &gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot; title=&quot;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis&quot;&gt;http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian&lt;br /&gt;-food-crisis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font &gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;Norman Borlaug&#039;s Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm&quot;&gt;http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font &gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font &gt;The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. 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                <p align="justify"><font >World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/" title="http://www.cimmyt.org/">http://www.cimmyt.org/</a><font >) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><br /><font >The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp" title="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149<br />1641.jsp</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/" title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti<br />on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br /></font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug" title="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar<br />ding-death-norman-borlaug</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html" title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr<br />ess.html</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis" title="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian<br />-food-crisis</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf" title="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf" title="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy" title="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han<br />dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font></p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc" title="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut<br />ion_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</a> </p>               </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.cimmyt.org/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br />
</font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug</font></a> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</font></a> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font>
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<a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</font></a> 
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World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts...',
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He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/" title="http://www.cimmyt.org/">http://www.cimmyt.org/</a><font >) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><br /><font >The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp" title="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149<br />1641.jsp</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/" title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti<br />on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br /></font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug" title="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar<br />ding-death-norman-borlaug</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html" title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr<br />ess.html</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis" title="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian<br />-food-crisis</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf" title="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf" title="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy" title="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han<br />dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font></p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc" title="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut<br />ion_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</a> </p>',
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.cimmyt.org/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>
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<br />
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br />
</font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug</font></a> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"> </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</font></a> 
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br />
</font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&nbsp; </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font>
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<a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</font></a> 
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$disp = '<p align="justify"><font >World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in &lsquo;hunger&rsquo; belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India&rsquo;s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the &lsquo;father&rsquo; of the Green Revolution. </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Borlaug&rsquo;s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, </font><a href="http://www.cimmyt.org/" title="http://www.cimmyt.org/">http://www.cimmyt.org/</a><font >) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour.</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><br /><font >The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology:</font> </p><p align="justify"><font >Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp" title="http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_11491641.jsp">http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149<br />1641.jsp</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Father of &lsquo;Green Revolution&rsquo; Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/" title="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revolution-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/">http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti<br />on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, <br /></font><a href="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug" title="http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regarding-death-norman-borlaug">http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar<br />ding-death-norman-borlaug</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, </font><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html" title="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/press.html">http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr<br />ess.html</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, </font><a href="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis" title="http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian-food-crisis">http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian<br />-food-crisis</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm" title="http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm">http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, </font><a href="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf" title="http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf">http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf</a><font > </font></p><p align="justify"><font >U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, </font><a href="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf" title="http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf">http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf</a> </p><p align="justify"><font >Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009,<br /></font><a href="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy" title="http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Handbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy">http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han<br />dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy</a><font >&nbsp; </font></p><p align="justify"><font >Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, </font></p><p align="justify"><a href="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc" title="http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolution_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc">http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut<br />ion_&amp;_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc</a> </p>'
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Father of green revolution no more with us

World leaders have mourned the sudden demise of Norman E Borlaug on 12 September, 2009 in Texas, United States. He was 95. He is remembered for his role in bringing green revolution technology that increased food production in ‘hunger’ belts of the world during the 1960s and 1970s. His contribution to India’s self-sufficiency in foodgrain production is well-known. It is his work that earned him the popular title of the ‘father’ of the Green Revolution. Borlaug’s earlier work in the 1940s with the Mexican Government in a Rockefeller Foundation programme involved breeding wheat crops that were immune to wheat rust that had devastated crops there. He was a guide and a personal friend to many of the agricultural scientists from India, Pakistan and Indonesia whom he trained at International Maize and Wheat Development Centre (CIMMYT, http://www.cimmyt.org/) based in Mexico. He worked closely with the World Food Programme (WFP) of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), United Nations and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. Borlaug received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his contribution to increasing food production to mitigate hunger. He was also a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honour. Prior to the green revolution, India pursued a policy of heavy industrialization during the 2nd and 3rd Five Year Plans. The droughts in the mid-1960s made Indian officials and bureaucracy to reconsider the technology for boosting domestic production, which Borlaug introduced in certain field trial sites during 1963. His experimentation with the Mexican semi-dwarf wheat variety by cross-breeding it with indigenous varieties from India brought forth the requisite results. As a result of this, wheat production nearly doubled from 9.85 million tonnes in 1963-64 to 18.65 million tonnes in 1968-69. The new technology helped in augmenting the yield in wheat from 730 kg per hectare in 1963-64 to 1169 kg per hectare in 1969-69. This was a sigh of relief for India, which saw major droughts and stagnation in food production during 1964-66. Later, it helped India to stop depending on the United States food aid called the PL 480.   Along with wheat, high yielding varieties of rice was invented. The green revolution, which earlier was confined to the Western part of India namely Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, later spread to the Eastern parts of India during the 1980s.   Critiques of green revolution often argue that excessive reliance of green revolution technology on high-valued inputs like chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as assured irrigation has made it inaccessible to the poorer farmers from rainfed areas. The technology has led to industrial mono-cropping of a few crops causing damage to both soil health and biodiversity. Rise in food production could not help in ending pervasive hunger and malnutrition from the face of the earth, unlike what Borlaug wished for.         The following links and resources will lead you to more information on Norman Borlaug and green revolution technology: Farm boy who fed India by GS Mudur, The Telegraph, 14 September, 2009, http://telegraphindia.com/1090914/jsp/frontpage/story_1149 1641.jsp Father of ‘Green Revolution’ Borlaug dies at 95, Indian Express, 13 September, 2009, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/father-of-green-revoluti on-borlaug-dies-at-95/516540/  WFP Pays Tribute To Father Of Green Revolution, World Food Proframme, 13 September, 2009, http://www.wfp.org/stories/statement-josette-sheeran-regar ding-death-norman-borlaug The Nobel Peace Prize 1970 Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1970/pr ess.html Foreign Relations of the United States Theme: The Indian Food Crisis, Office of the Historian, US Department of State, http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/themes/indian -food-crisis Norman Borlaug's Legacy by Steve Baragona, Voice of America, 16 September 2009, http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-16-voa63.cfm The Life and Work of Norman Borlaug, Nobel Laureate by Robert W. Herdt, Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation, College Station, Texas, January 14, 1998, http://www.rockfound.org/library/98borlaug.pdf U.S. Food Aid and Sustainable Development: Forty Years of Experience, USAID Evaluation Highlights No. 63, November 1998, http://www.cfiks.org/page2/assets/foodaid.pdf Handbook of Statistics on Indian Economy, Reserve Bank of India, 15 September, 2009, http://rbi.org.in/scripts/AnnualPublications.aspx?head=Han dbook%20of%20Statistics%20on%20Indian%20Economy  Lessons from the Green Revolution: Effects on Human Nutrition by Rachel Bezner Kerr, IDRC, http://www.idrc.ca/uploads/user-S/11212685201Green_Revolut ion_&_Nutrition_paper_-_for_Ecohealth_training.doc