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Pedro Sanchez, a global champion who fed the world’s poor dies at 85Pedro A. Sanchez, a soil scientist, passed away at 85. He revolutionized agriculture in poor nations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. San...
MS Swaminathan: All you need to know about Bharat Ratna awardee & Father of Green RevolutionDr. MS Swaminathan, hailed as the father of India’s green revolution, was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna for his outstanding contrib...
How M S Swaminathan’s genius lay in the impact of his work beyond labsHis pioneering work in agriculture, and in specific sectors like wheat breeding, led to a significant increase in wheat production, turning...
Swaminathan, the genius who sowed it rightBorn in Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1925, Swaminathan played a significant role in changing the trajectory of the agriculture sec...
"Will always cherish conversations with him": PM Modi condoles death of MS SwaminathanHis groundbreaking work paved the way for what would become the "Green Revolution" in India-an agricultural transformation that significant...
Indian scientist Swati Nayak named World Food Prize's Norman E Borlaug Award winnerBased in Delhi, the scientist from Odisha, Nayak will formally receive the Borlaug Field Award during a ceremony at the 2023 Norman E. Borl...
- Top soil scientist keen to help India, but 'nobody listens'
Dakhla (Morocco), April 2 (IANS) His expertise as a soil scientist has helped arrest degradation and grow crops in several areas across Afr...
Norman Borlaug: A midwestern karmayogiNorman Borlaug was 56 when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for having sparked the Green Revolution. Characteristically, the agronomist...
- Borlaug showed India way to overcome food shortage
By cranking up a wheat strain containing an unusual gene, Borlaug created the so-called “semi-dwarf ’’ plant variety, a shorter, stubbier, ...
- Norman Borlaug, Green Revolution pioneer dies
Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relat...