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Date 1940 - present

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  • The practices of the Green Revolution did not benefit countries lacking in the infrastructure to employ the new farming practices and also reduced crop variety, leaving crops vulnerable to pests and diseases.
  • The inventions of the Green Revolution turned the United States from an importer of wheat to an exporter of it.
  • India Rice 8, known as IR8, changed so many lives in India by preventing famine that some parents named their sons after the rice strain.

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Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
“Father of the green revolution” in India
M.S. Swaminathan
Indian scientist