Silent Revolution
The moral responsibility of a devoted humanitarian, Borlaug refused to remain idle in the face of hunger. Soon, he would venture to another continent, where millions of individuals were deprived of a fundamental right, and desperate for an agricultural leader.
"In 1962 we suddenly realized that, we had something that was big. The dwarf wheat plant was designed for intensive
cultivation of wheat under irrigation with heavy fertilization, and when this was all brought together into a package of
practices yields soared. Yields that our farmers here in the Yaqui valley had never dreamed of were being harvested on
vast acreages. We in the experimental stations recognized this as something that could be highly useful in hungry areas
of the world, far removed from Mexico."
- Norman Borlaug
"I suddenly realized that whether I wanted to or not, I had to be a spokesman for science, biological science especially, as it relates to food, but as that impinges on nutrition and many other aspects of human progress or lack of it."
- Norman Borlaug
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