How Did Norman Borlaug Contribute To Agriculture

The Great Depression in the United States caused many to die of starvation, as they did not have money for food and because of the dust bowl. After the end of the Great Depression, the economy reformed and the United States was able to feed the hungry mouths across the country. However, less economically stable countries struggled to improve their agricultural techniques and had very little success in feeding the hungry. An agricultural scientist named Norman Borlaug, helped reduce the growing problems of the world’s hunger. Norman Borlaug reduced the world’s hunger by inventing advanced varieties of wheat, stabilizing agricultural economies in struggling nations and providing insights for scientists
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After introducing his new variety of wheat to South Asia and Mexico, he remained in each country to help the population refine their agricultural practices. In Mexico, he helped the farmers realize jewel in nation’s soil. The nation began develop enough of a surplus to export. It currently exports one million metric tons of wheat compared to zero metric tons of wheat in 1960. When Borlaug began his work in India, it was recovering from its war of independence, and therefore, the country’s state of agriculture was in poor condition. Borlaug started to teach Indian farmers about his plants and how to grow them. This increased the yield of wheat plants in the region adjusted to match the demand of the growing population. Within a matter of seventeen years, India was producing a surplus in wheat and entered the world wheat export market in the mid 1980’s. Due to Borlaug’s effort, many countries around the world are experiencing an increase in wheat yields and are able to earn money by exporting wheat through a new insights for agricultural …show more content…
His plants provided scientists an insight to invent various types of dwarf plants. After Borlaug began his work in India, a new dwarf variety of rice, Semi-dwarf IR36 was introduced in 1968. The invention of Semi-dwarf IR36 had been created through careful breeding of several types of rice genes including the gene that made Borlaug's wheat dwarf and efficient. During his last years, Borlaug had worked in Africa, to improve its agricultural practices as it was experiencing several agricultural failures. Scientists researched and invented new types of plants compatible with Africa's soil type and water supplies using Borlaug’s technology. An example would be NERICA, a recent program in western Africa that is introducing a new high-yielding family of rice varieties. Another successful effort, the World Food Prize, is an organization started by Borlaug, and it has funded and supported certain agricultural advances. This organization is developing many new techniques to breed plants and make them efficient and compatible with many environmental conditions and water supplies. The Green Revolution, is an ongoing effort by scientists and people around the world to improve the world’s agricultural