Green Revolution
Green revolution refers to the breeding and widespread use of new varieties of cereal grains, especially wheat and rice. These semidwarf varieties boost yields when grown with high in...
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Green Revolution—South Asia
The Green Revolution, a transformation in the organization of South Asian agriculture that took place mainly between 1964 and 1978, was attendant upon the adoption o...
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Green Revolution—Southeast Asia
The term "Green Revolution" is used for big increases in wheat and rice yields in developing countries from the 1960s brought about by new high-yie...
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Green Revolution
The Green Revolution (not to be confused with "green" as in the environmental movement) was a dramatic increase in grain yields (especially wheat and rice) in the 1960s ...
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Green Revolution
The "green revolution" refers to the widespread introduction of industrial agriculture into developing countries that began in the 1940s. As seen in Norman Borlaug...
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Green Revolution
The Green Revolution began during the 1970s and 1980s in an attempt to increase the nutrition in food crops and to make species of food crops more uniform and robust. Scientists de...
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Nairobi (dpa) - African farmers can uproot themselves from poverty
without genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but rather through
greater access to good seeds and economi...
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Citrusdal, South Africa (dpa) - A quiet revolution is taking place
in the orchards of the Western Cape. After decades of trying to coax
fruit onto the trees with the aid of ...
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President Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal on Tuesday to agriculture scientist Norman Borlaug, whose work on high-yield, disease-resistant varieties of wheat is credited with starting th...
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LOS BANOS, Philippines, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A global rice
shortage is possible in the short run unless governments and
farmers improve cultivation to squeeze more grain out of
overworked paddy fiel...
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If the world is committed to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable economic growth, the powers of using agriculture for development must be unleashed, the World Bank said Friday.Promoting agri...
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France's government agreed Wednesday to reward drivers of cars that use little gasoline, drastically slow road construction and renovate all the country's public buildings to slash energy consumpti...
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TOP STORIES ----------- SAN DIEGO - Firefighters won the upper hand against most of
California's wildfires on Thursday, though several still burned
out of control as President George W. Bush surve...
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TOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - The United States slapped new sanctions on
Iran and accused its Revolutionary Guard of spreading weapons
of mass destruction on Thursday but Russian President ...
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TOP STORIES ----------- WASHINGTON - The United States slapped new sanctions on
Iran and accused its Revolutionary Guard of spreading weapons
of mass destruction on Thursday but Russian President ...
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Green Revolution
Green Revolution—South Asia
Green Revolution
Green Revolution
The Green Revolution
Annan: Africa's green revolution without genetically modified crops
