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the credit for research that led to green revolution goes to
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Answer 1

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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's Green Revolution a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers.

Swaminathan is known as the "Indian Father of Green Revolution" for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India.

Answer 2

Norman Borlaug, an American scientist interested in agriculture, is often credited with starting the Green Revolution globally.  In India, M.S Swaminathan is known as the Father of the Green Revolution.

• The title "Green Revolution" refers to an agricultural reform movement that began in Mexico during the 1940s.
• Green Revolution technology spread internationally in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of its success in generating more agricultural commodities, greatly boosting the farm sector.
• High yield types of crops were produced during the Green Revolution, which was cultivated plants bred specifically to respond to fertilisers and produce more grain per acre sown.
• The Demand for fertilisers was extremely high during the Green Revolution.
• Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is a well-known Indian geneticist who played a key part in the country's green revolution.
• The green revolution was a scheme in which needy farmers' fields were seeded with high-yield wheat and rice seedlings.
• He cultivated a semi-dwarf type and raised wheat production from 2 tonnes to 6 tonnes per hectare in 1960-1970, then to 4.5 million tonnes in 2006.