Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries.
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Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.Norman Borlaug
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
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Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
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