Man behind India's green revolution dies at 95

Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Prize winning scientist also called the father of the Green Revo-lution, died in Dallas, Texas, from cancer-related complications yesterday. He was 95.

Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Prize winning scientist also called the father of the Green Revo-lution, died in Dallas, Texas, from cancer-related complications yesterday. He was 95.

Borlaug was best known for his "dwarf" wheat, which yielded two to three times as much as the normal crop.
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The new strain nearly doubled Indian wheat production between 1965 and 1970, at a time when mass famines were predicted. He was awarded the Padma Vibh-ushan for this.

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