Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist ...

These new wheat varieties and improved crop management practices transformed agricultural production in Mexico during the 1940's and 1950's and later in Asia and Latin America, sparking what today is ...

Could the key to feeding the world with a changing climate be hiding in a 300-year-old museum collection? That's one of the hopes of scientists combing through 12,000 specimens of wheat and its ...

And from 1960 to 2000, their wheat yields trebled. Similar work followed on corn and rice. It was dubbed the "green revolution". Ehrlich had predicted mass starvation but the world's population ...

The agricultural weather from the National Weather Service Climate Predication Center 8-to-14-day outlook for January 6 to 12 ...

Dr Ojiewo of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) says Kenya is on the path of a green revolution and has developed varieties of crops like wheat, rice, and maize ...

M.S. Swaminathan, known as the pioneer of India's Green Revolution, passed away on Thursday ... and introduction of high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice. These agricultural breakthroughs ...

Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist ...