5 Years of Death by Norman Borlaug - The Father of the

Five years ago, September 12, 2009, Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution", devoted his life to improving life and saving hundreds of millions of poor farmers around the globe, passed away at age 95.

He is the only agronomist to date awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was also named by Time magazine (USA) on the list of the 100 greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Born on March 25, 1914 and raised in the Iowa field, America, from childhood, Norman Borlaug was passionate about farming. The teachers who taught him all said that in Norman Borlaug contained the mysteries of the land, the pasture and that seemed to be the fate of this particular man.

Norman Borlaug

Obsessed by hunger

After high school, Norman Borlaug decided to leave his family's farm to study botanical science at the prestigious University of Minnesota. In 1942, he received his doctorate in genetics and plant diseases; He started his research on plant protection and plant preservation at Du Pont de Nemours Group.

In the second half of the twentieth century, underdeveloped countries faced the risk of severe food shortages, due to a strong population explosion while backward agricultural systems failed to meet rising demand for food. That left scars in the soul and thoughts of Borlaug.

Doing 'green revolution'

Beginning with Mexico, in 1944, after 10 years of hard and arduous research with more than 6,000 experimental crosses, Norman Borlaug succeeded in improving dwarf wheat varieties - a wheat variety capable of rooming. Good pest and disease prevention, overcoming the vulnerability of blossoming of high and special wheat varieties for superior yields.

Norman Borlaug pulled the Mexican people out of hunger and turned this impoverished Latin American country into a wheat exporter. Mexican people honor him as 'genius cultivator'. In recognition of the contribution of Norman Borlaug, 1968, the people of Sonora, Mexico, took his name to set a road.

It was thanks to the day-to-day rolling under the field, not in the lab, that he saved tens of millions of people from hunger.

India and Pakistan are the first countries in Asia to benefit from the tireless research results of Norman Borlaug. In 1966, India purchased 18,000 tons of dwarf wheat varieties to cultivate to cope with the raging hunger.

In 1967, Pakistan also imported about 42,000 tons of seed wheat and then had a bumper crop. The result of Norman Borlaug is the abundance of food for these two populous countries. After that, a number of other countries like Thailand, Philippines, Turkey . also imported and used this wheat . A green revolution has been successful globally. And people call Norman Borlaug with a respectable name: 'The Father of Green Revolution'.

Norman Borlaug, along with many scientists, has done many researches to improve rice and corn varieties, helping to boost the food production of many countries in Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa.

Thanks to the 'Green Revolution' , from 1960 to 1990, worldwide agricultural production doubled and saved about 1 billion people in developing countries from starvation. In 2006, a book about Norman Borlaug was published under the title 'The one who lives the whole world'.

A human being

In 1970, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on creating good rice varieties and helping to revolutionize agriculture in developing countries. But Nornam Borlaug is a man who always hides and never appreciates his contributions.

Nornam Borlaug said that all he did was to help his fellow men and wheat as a means of conveying his interest in improving people's lives.

He said that all he did was to help his fellow men and wheat as a means of conveying his interest in improving people's lives.

In 1986, Borlaug founded the World Food Prize, which is considered the 'Nobel Prize in food research' , to honor individuals who have contributed to improving the value and quality of food worldwide. gender. This is considered his second revolution.

At the age of 90, he kept thinking about fighting hunger in the world. He said: 'We still have a lot of poor people, lack of food and this is the scourge for the whole world'.

Despite his advanced age, he embarked on a project to disseminate bio-engineering in farming in Africa and successfully researched a drought-tolerant wheat variety for barren African soil.

Recognizing the noble dedication to mankind, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, the US Congress's Gold Medal in 2007 and many honorable and noble awards of many countries. , organizations and universities around the world.

The world is undergoing a second green revolution within the framework of the biotechnology revolution with the creation and introduction of a variety of food and industrial crops with good resistance and high productivity. Department of application of genetic engineering and molecular biology. And that is Dr. Norman Borlaug's dream in the fight against poverty for millions of millions of farmers in the world.

Dr. Norman Borlaug has been gone forever, but the fire against world poverty that he lit up is still forever shining.

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