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...early 1960s in Mexico that Borlaug developed the high-yield strain of wheat that would more than double worldwide grain output over 40 years...
According to Christopher Dowswell, the director of communications at the Sasakawa Africa Association, Borlaug crossed high yield tall wheats with much shorter Japanese wheats to develop a plant which produced substanitally more grain...
Becker says that Borlaug conducted the experiments in Mexico because the country could support two growing seasons...
...When he showed up in Mexico [in the 1940s], the Mexicans didn’t trust him,” Becker says. “[But] he kept going.” Sixty years later, Borlaug maintains an office in Mexico...
...Borlaug was able to convince nations around the world to adopt the dwarf wheat to supplement and even replace traditional grain crops...