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The Rockefeller Foundation is established in Mexico. Its purpose was to start biotechnological research.
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India falls into a rural famine because the disease of plants spreads, causing the plants to fail in seed production.
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Dwarf wheats, a version of the wheat that is smaller, requires less fertilizer, requires less water, and gives more wheat, is invented in Mexico.
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Borlaug accepts a peace mission to India, as India encounters its first "Age of Triage" which was a massive famine. Norman Borlaug was sent in order to solve problems with food there.
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Rockefeller Foundation formally establishes the CIMMYT. (Center for International maize and yeast treatment).
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The negative effects that this war placed upon agriculture was devastating. Millions of farms were destroyed, and by having this war, it delayed the agricultural revolution that Borlaug was about to start in India.
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India accepts the dwarf wheats, and governments fund farmers to try this new variety of crops.
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Indian minister and Norman Borlaug meet once again to continue their success.
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Norman Borlaug accepts the Nobel Peace Prize for agricultural success in India.
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All countries are benefited. Grain output had increased from 50 million to 131 million tons.
