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According to Kenneth G. Becker, the secretary of the Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation, Borlaug almost ran out of seeds before developing the dwarf variety of wheat that would revolutionize agriculture and win him the Nobel Peace Prize...
...theory at the time was that bigger wheat meant bigger yield,” Becker says. But Borlaug’s dwarf wheat used its energy to produce edible grain and not the inedible stalk, thus significantly increasing the yield of the crop...
...DWARF WHEAT...
Borlaug was able to convince nations around the world to adopt the dwarf wheat to supplement and even replace traditional grain crops...
...midst of war and starvation in the late 1960s, the nations adopted Borlaug’s dwarf wheat and were able to avert both...