India’s Green Revolution
By: thisindianlife
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M.S. Swaminathan is the plant geneticist credited with rescuing India from famine. TIME Magazine called him one of the twenty most influential Asians in the 20th Century, alongside two other well known Indians, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.
India was on the brink of mass famine in 1961 when it imported a new strain of high yielding wheat developed by Norman Borlaug in Mexico. Swaminathan further researched wheat breeds and irrigation methods and agrochemical finance systems were implemented. India adopted rice strains that increased yields and reduced prices to make India a major rice exporter.
The Green Revolution transformed food production around the world and received criticism for its impact on the environment, diet, and social-political life. In response to the criticism, Borlaug responded that his work had been “a change in the right direction, but it has not transformed the world into a Utopia”.
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