Norman Borlaug is dead..

[fahim mohammed]

Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, the man credited with developments in agri-farming which might have saved upto a billion lives across the globe died of cancer complications.

May he rest in peace.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug, the man credited with developments in agri-farming which might have saved upto a billion lives across the globe died of cancer complications.

May he rest in peace.

Norman Borlaug, the man known as the father of the Green Revolution in agriculture, has died in the US state of Texas aged 95. Prof Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for agricultural innovation and the development of high-yield crops. The Green Revolution helped world food production more than double between 1960 and 1990 with Asia, Africa and Latin America in particular benefiting. The Nobel Institute said he had helped save hundreds of millions of lives. Prof Borlaug died late on Saturday evening at his home in Dallas from complications with cancer, said a spokesperson for Texas A&M University, where he had worked. 'A better place' In the early 1960s Prof Borlaug realised that creating short-stemmed varieties would leave food plants more energy for growing larger heads of grain. His high-yield, disease-resistant dwarf wheat quickly boosted harvests in Latin America, and his techniques were particularly successful in South Asia, where famine was widespread. Analysts believe the Green Revolution helped avert a worldwide famine in the late 20th century.here

Asher