The ‘alternative Nobel’ laureate
In 1961, the province of Punjab in India produced 1.76 million tonnes of wheat. In 1971, it produced 5.6 million tonnes. The first of the Green Revolutions, which introduced the large-scale use of fertilizers and pesticides, took credit for the unprecedented increase in wheat production in India and Pakistan. In 1970, Norman Borlaug, the “father […]