The father of the Green Revolution died

Professor Norman Borlaug, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his great contributions to the fight against humanity's poverty, died in the United States at the age of 95.

A spokesman for the Texas College of Agriculture and Engineering - where Borlaug worked - announced that he had died on the evening of September 12 due to complications of cancer.

According to AP, Borlaug was born in Iowa in 1914. He studied genetics and plant diseases at the University of Minnesota. In 1963 Borlaugh established a maize and barley research center to train scientists. He is one of the founders of the World Food Prize.

Professor Borlaug has helped hundreds of millions of people escape hunger.(Photo: achivement.org)

The BBC said Dr. Norman Borlaug devoted his life to efforts to improve life and increase income for hundreds of millions of poor farmers on the planet. The Green Revolution, initiated by him, increased world food production more than twice during the 1960-1990 period. Asia, Africa and Latin America benefit greatly from this revolution. Professor Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in developing high-yielding cereals and advanced agricultural techniques.

In the early 1960s, Professor Borlaug realized that short-term cereal varieties would become decisive factors to increase crop yields. The high-yielding and disease-resistant dwarf barley that he bred quickly increased barley production in Latin America. His techniques worked especially well in South Asia - where famine raged in the 1960s and '70s. Agricultural experts believe that, without the Green Revolution, mankind will certainly face severe food shortage in the late 20th century.

The Nobel committee declared Borlaug helped several hundred million people escape poverty. Dr. Ed Runge, a friend of Professor Borlaug at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, said: ' He made the world a better place .'

Borlaug continued to work even when he was in his 90s. According to the BBC, during a seminar in the Philippines, he said: ' We still have a lot of poor and poor people. That situation made the world unstable. We must not forget the suffering of our fellow human beings '.