30 Day of the green revolution on the farmer

The program began in the mid-20th century, when the Mexican government invited the Rockefeller Foundation to do research on the fragility of agriculture. Since then, scientists have created new varieties of corn and high-yielding wheat, which made Mexico rising steeply production. These seeds were then introduced and cultured in other countries, also with excellent results. "The social impact of the green revolution, in that it helped to eradicate hunger in the world, made Norman Ernest Borlaug, the father of the movement, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970," says the agronomist Fabio Faleiros, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa).