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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...- He walked...and the earth turned green: The life and legacy of MS SwaminathanGeneticist MS Swaminathan who led India’s push in the 1960s to become grain surplus, promoting the use of hybrid varieties and chemical fer...
- How 100 kg seeds transformed India from food importer to exporterIndia's success in enhancing food production through plant genetics has been a transformative victory for the nation. In the 1960s, India f...
- 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...
- The Borlaug legacy: The common link between farmers’ protests in Punjab and stubble burningNorman Borlaug’s battle against world hunger, which won him the Nobel Peace Prize 50 years ago, was fuelled at least in part by his own exp...
- View: Alarmism over genetically modified foods is unscientific and falseThere are hard scientific facts in favour of GM foods. Yet, activists still take the old alarmist stance.
- PM Narendra Modi to release 'Vision 2050' for agriculture, says Radha Mohan SinghHe said Modi will also inaugurate three new projects - Farmers First, Arya and Mera Gaon Mera Gaurav (My village my pride).
- India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram awarded World Food PrizeThe award "honours the innovative spirit of farmers", he said adding that "without their contributions, my research wouldn't have been poss...
- India-born scientist Rajaram awarded World Food PrizeIndia-born Mexican scientist Sanjaya Rajaram has been presented with the prestigious World Food Prize 2014 for his agricultural research th...
- Eminent Indian crop scientist wins World Food PrizeThe World Food Prize, presented at the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue, currently being held in Des Moines, United States, from October 15-17.
- Honour Norman Borlaug on his centenary by approving GM cropsBorlaug was an outspoken supporter of GM crops. He blasted anti-GM activists as alarmists ignorant of nature and spreading falsehoods based...
- India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram named winner of 2014 World Food PrizeWorld Food Prize was established by Borlaug in order to focus the world's attention on hunger and on those whose work has significantly hel...
- India-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram named winner of 2014 World Food PrizeRajaram's breakthrough achievement in successfully cross-breeding winter and spring wheat varieties, which were distinct gene pools.
- Sugar output expected to be higher in 2013-14 marketing year: Sharad PawarSugar output in the marketing year beginning October 2013 may exceed the current year's 25 million tonnes as good monsoon rains help yield.
- Time for gene revolution: If we are to save India from starving, we must embrace GM cropsGM (Bt) Cotton has brought spectacular benefits to India’s farmers and to the nation’s economy. India could and should continue to lead the...
- A ban on the use of crops with transgenic traits is unscientific and India needs new technologies to raise farm yieldsBoth yield-enhancement and yield-stabilisation are critical for feeding a global population of over seven billion, and still increasing.
- Monsanto earmarks $ 10 mn to promote agri-research in IndiaGlobal seeds major Monsanto has earmarked a grant of $ 10 mn for promoting research on the two staple foodgrains.
- 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 shortageBy 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 diesLong 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...
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