There is still an abundant amount of deceased people all over the world still remembered today for their life-changing executions. Moreover, Gandhi (an Indian activist), a well-known person around the world is still honored today even after seventy years after his assassination. But Borlaug was just as significant as Gandhi was. Norman Borlaug an American biologist commonly known as “the father of Green Revolution” was a man who saved millions of lives from starvation. Borlaug was a person who contributed many achievements when famine was a major crisis.
On March 5, 1914, the very day he was born, he was born a mystery. How could a young boy who didn’t know that he will become an honorable man, become a Nobel Peace Prize Winner of 1970 for …show more content…
Which had a possibility of speeding up the production of wheat grains in Mexico, so the famine will be put to the end. He took the seeds he had gathered from the field in Yaqui valley and then he organized them into different categories. When he had finished with his organizing, he looked up into the holy heavens and prayed to God for his plan to be a success.
Borlaug then joined in the Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico. This was when Borlaug decided that a change needed to happen to terminate this crisis. His plan was to crossbreed various types of wheat strains from around the world. As Borlaug said, “Crossbreeding is a hit-or-miss process. It’s a time consuming and mind warpingly tedious”(The Man Who Fed The World). But he was able to shorten the process by cross-breeding (two different plants bred as one whole crop) by …show more content…
Borlaug’s scientific journals were fascinating it had six thousand entries that talked about numerous crossbreeds he experimented on. He was as patient as a waiting room would be during the cross-breeding process. In order for things to speed up a bit, he sowed two crops per year, a summer crop, and a winter crop. This was his second innovation commonly known as shuttle breeding after his first innovation of cross-breeding it. These summer crops were planted close to Mexico city in high altitudes whereas the winter crops were planted way up north in the Yaqui Valley.
Within the time period of five years, he was able to create a strain that was immune to rust and also adapt to different climates with sufficient amount of water. But his creation of wheat strains had failed due to its failure to hold upright during irrigation and rains. Crossbreeding is like a game of luck, either you win or you lose. He thought he wouldn’t be able to do it. But Borlaug was able to crossbreed successfully with the help of other scientists and