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Green Revolution

Also Known As Third Agricultural Revolution
Agricultural Transformation, Technology and Extension

The mid-20th-century package of semi-dwarf wheat and rice varieties, fertilizer, irrigation and pesticides that roughly tripled Asian and Latin American grain yields between the 1950s and the 1980s and pushed back famines widely predicted to be inevitable. Its costs, groundwater depletion, agrochemical dependence, lost crop diversity and widened rural inequality, are part of its honest record, and both the achievement and the bill are carried here. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Origin Year
1944 1
Dated here from the start of the Rockefeller-Mexico wheat program; the term itself was coined in 1968 by USAID administrator William Gaud.
Classification
Concept Class
Agricultural Transformation, Technology and Extension 1
Connections

Associated With

Gene Revolution, Concepts
Henry Beachell, Figures
Source Henry Beachell (Wikipedia)
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Institutions

CIMMYT, developer of Norman Borlaug's high-yielding wheat varieties, is one of the two research institutions most consistently credited as the origin of the Green Revolution.

International Rice Research Institute, Institutions

IRRI, developer of the IR8 high-yielding rice variety, is one of the two research institutions most consistently credited as the origin of the Green Revolution.

M. S. Swaminathan, Figures
Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)
Norman Borlaug, Figures
Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)
Punjab Agricultural University, Institutions

Punjab Agricultural University at Ludhiana was the leading institution implementing India's Green Revolution, driving adoption of high yielding wheat and rice varieties across Punjab from the 1960s onward.

Rice, Crops
Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)
Wheat, Crops
Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)

Causes

Agricultural Productivity, Concepts
Intensive Agriculture, Concepts

Classified As

Agricultural Transformation, Technology and Extension, Subcategories

Entity-backed identity for the concept class this concept already carries as an enum fact, pointing at the class subcategory of the same name. The enum fact itself stays on the entity unchanged.

Sources
1. Green Revolution (Wikipedia)
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    The mid-20th-century package of semi-dwarf wheat and rice varieties, fertilizer, irrigation and pesticides that roughly tripled Asian and Latin American grain yields between the 1950s and the 1980s and pushed back famines widely predicted to be inevitable.
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Henry Beachell (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Henry Beachell, body paragraph on IR8 impact
Quote, Associated With: Henry Beachell, body paragraph on IR8 impact
It played a significant part in the Green Revolution.
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