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The scientific farmer Norman Borlaug, who there was considered the father of the “Green Revolution” and gained the Nobel Prize of the Peace for his role in the combat against the world famine to save several hundreds of million lives, died 95 years after age on Saturday, the 12th of September in Texas, as there announced a spokeswoman of the University of Texas A&M.
Borlaug died shortly before the 11 of the Saturday night in his hearth in Dallas due to a series of complications for cancer, informed Kathleen Phillips, addressed to the above mentioned university, who added that the granddaughter of the scientist informed him about his death.
Borlaug born in Cresco (Iowa) on March 25, 1914, was a teacher distinguished from the Agricultural University and to Serve of Texas in College Station.
The committee of the Nobel Prize honored Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to a series of varieties of plants of big agricultural yield, as well as a series of agricultural innovations that were taken to the nations in development. Many experts think that the Green Revolution initiated by Borlaug avoided a world famine during the second half of the XXth century and could have saved up to 1.000 million lives
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Thanks to this Green Revolution, the world food production doubled between 1960 and 1990. Pakistan and the India, two of the nations that more benefited from the new harvests varieties, managed to quadruple his harvests during the same period.
Borlaug, who was simultaneously a scientist and humanitarian activist, insisted on improving the varieties of seeds and cultivation and pressed the governments so that they were applying economic politics that were impelling the agriculture and the infrastructure. In a book published in 2006 on Borlaug, one titles him “The man who fed to the world”. Five grandchildren and six great-grandsons survive him his daughter Jeanie Borlaug Laube, his son William Gibson Borlaug.
The arrangements of his funeral service are in charge of the University of Texas A&M in coordination with the family Borlaug.
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