Norman Borlaug, father of the Green Revolution, is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.

The initiatives, led by Norman Borlaug, the " Father of the Green Revolution " credited with saving over a billion people from starvation, involved the development of high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers.

These samples were used in 1952 by Norman Borlaug and collaborators and crossed with Mexican traditional varieties.

During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India.

These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.

During the sixteen years Borlaug remained with the project, he bred a series of remarkably successful high-yield, disease-resistant, semi-dwarf wheat.

In 1953, Borlaug extended this technique by suggesting that several purelines with different resistance genes should be developed through backcross methods using one recurrent parent.

The cultivars Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks.

Borlaug crossbred the semi-dwarf Norin 10 / Brevor cultivar with his disease-resistant cultivars to produce wheat varieties that were adapted to tropical and sub-tropical climates.

Borlaug received a telegraph from the Pakistani minister of agriculture, Malik Khuda Bakhsh Bucha: " I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble with my check, but I've got troubles, too.

George W. Bush | President George W. Bush along with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulate Borlaug during the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony on July 17, 2007

The prize was created in 1986 by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug with the help of General Foods, and since 1990 has been sponsored by businessman and philanthropist John Ruan.

The Award Ceremony coincides with the Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium, known as the " Borlaug Dialogue ," which addresses an issue related to hunger and food security each year.

Eventually being given the title Distinguished Professor of International Agriculture at the university and the holder of the Eugene Butler Endowed Chair in Agricultural Biotechnology, Borlaug remained at A & M until his death in September 2009.

At the DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition Media Day held in Des Moines, Iowa, on September 25, 2000, Borlaug announced the launch of Norman Borlaug University, an Internet-based learning company for the agriculture and food industry personnel.

United Nations ' Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) described Borlaug as

In 2006, the Texas A & M University System created the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture to be a premier institution for agricultural development and to continue the legacy of Dr. Borlaug.

According to the act, " the number of lives Dr. Borlaug has saved more than a billion people " The act authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell duplicates of the medal in bronze.

Borlaug was invited to India by the adviser to the Indian minister of agriculture M. S. Swaminathan.

In 1984 Borlaug began teaching and conducting research at Texas A & M University.

In May 1962, M. S. Swaminathan, a member of IARI's wheat program, requested of Dr. B. P. Pal, Director of IARI, to arrange for the visit of Borlaug to India and to obtain a wide range of dwarf wheat seed possessing the Norin 10 dwarfing genes.

Several research institutions and buildings have been named in his honor, including: the Norman E. Borlaug Center for Farmer Training and Education, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 1983 ; Borlaug Hall, on the St. Paul Campus of the University of Minnesota in 1985 ; Borlaug Building at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ( CIMMYT ) headquarters in 1986 ; the Norman Borlaug Institute for Plant Science Research at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom in 1997 ; and the Norman E. Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement, at Texas A & M University in 1999.

* Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture-Texas A & M University System

* The Borlaug Center for Southern Crop Improvement-Texas A & M University System

Key scientists in the history of botany include Theophrastus, Ibn al-Baitar, Carl Linnaeus, Gregor Johann Mendel, and Norman Borlaug.

* 1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agriculturalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 2009 )

* 2000 – Herbert F. York and Norman Borlaug

The concept of soil quality, however, has not been without its share of controversy and criticism, including critiques by Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug and World Food Prize Winner Pedro Sanchez.

The agricultural development that began in Mexico by Norman Borlaug in 1943 ( based on Nazareno Strampelli's studies ) had been judged as a success and the Rockefeller Foundation sought to spread it to other nations.

* Norman Borlaug ( 1914 – 2009 ) A Nobel Peace Prize winner raised and went to school in the county.

Borlaug was one of six people to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Borlaug received his Ph. D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942.

Borlaug was the great-grandchild of Norwegian immigrants to the United States.

The eldest of four children — his three younger sisters were Palma Lillian ( Behrens ; 1916 – 2004 ), Charlotte ( Culbert ; b. 1919 ) and Helen ( 1921 – 1921 ) — Borlaug was born to Henry Oliver ( 1889 – 1971 ) and Clara ( Vaala ) Borlaug ( 1888 – 1972 ) on his grandparents ' farm in Saude in 1914.

He attributed his decision to leave the farm and pursue further education to his grandfather, Nels Olson Borlaug ( 1859 – 1935 ), who strongly encouraged Borlaug's learning, once saying, " You're wiser to fill your head now if you want to fill your belly later on.

Borlaug failed the entrance exam, but was accepted to the school's newly created two-year General College.

From 1935 to 1938, before and after receiving his Bachelor of Science in forestry in 1937, Borlaug worked for the United States Forest Service at stations in Massachusetts and Idaho.

However, following the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to enlist in the military, but was rejected under wartime labor regulations ; his lab was converted to conduct research for the United States armed forces.

Taller wheat grasses better compete for sunlight, but tend to collapse under the weight of the extra grain — a trait called lodging — from the rapid growth spurts induced by nitrogen fertilizer Borlaug used in the poor soil.

Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4: 00 am, but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 40 miles ( 65 km ) west of Mexico City.

The large role he played in both increasing crop yields and promoting this view has led to this methodology being called by agricultural economists the " Borlaug hypothesis ", namely that increasing the productivity of agriculture on the best farmland can help control deforestation by reducing the demand for new farmland.

For Borlaug, the rapid increase in yields suggests that there is still hope for higher food production throughout sub-Saharan Africa.

The prize was created in 1986 by Norman Borlaug, as a way to recognize personal accomplishments, and as a means of education by using the Prize to establish role models for others.

The limited potential for land expansion for cultivation worried Borlaug, who, in March 2005, stated that, " we will have to double the world food supply by 2050.

In addition to the Nobel Prize, Borlaug received the 1977 U. S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the 2002 Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, the 2002 Rotary International Award for World Understanding and Peace, and the 2004 National Medal of Science.