A tribute to Norman Borlaug:

Birth rate of world is 19.95 per year per 1000 total population. world population is around 6.7 billion. that means every year around 133 million is added to world population, so lets say that amount to around 9 Australian continent which is added to world population every year. My point here is not to show you some population bombardment which is happening on us every second, or to tell that death rate is around 8.23 deaths/1,000 population, which is around 55 million person each year. but to make you think that how many person among these 55 million, who vanishes from this world stage every year, leave their foot print behind them and ensure that 133-55=78 million(net remaining popoulation added to world in 1 year) people leave in peace on this beautiful world when they leave it. perhaps very few, but that few people only make a difference. Norman borlaug was one of these , ‘very few’. He died at 12 sep, 2009 at the age of 95, but before dying he saved more than 1 billion people from starving and ensured that this conitue even after his death. Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009)was an American agronomist, humanitarian, and Nobel Laureate who has been deemed the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, Disease-resistant wheat varieties. He is known as the father of green revolution in India. During 1960s, when food production in India was all time low and population was all time high, country men was on verge of being famished, then situation’s urgency made Dr. M.S. Swaminathan to make a request to government of India for arranging a visit of Borlaug to India. Norman Borlaug was working in Mexico, where he developed the new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties wheat crops. That year, the harvest was six times larger than in 1944, the year Borlaug arrived in Mexico. Mexico had become fully self-sufficient in wheat production, and a net exporter of wheat. On request of Indian government he arrived India and suddenly the scenario is changed. The country which was shrugged off by world community as, over populated poor country who can not even feed itself, was tranformed into a world cereal house. Within 10 years of time India reached in condition to export grain to world community. That green revolution changed the India’s face forever on world stage. All this was made possible by Borlaug fervent detemination to make this world hunger free. He was the man who never differentaited between man based upon thier races, religion or nationality. Being an American , who was self sufficient and developed , he still overlooked from his country boundry and reach the nations who where still struggling with the basic problem like hunger, famine after getting thier independence. His contribution saved the world from going through greatest famine of centuries, and led to more research in genetic engineering. He got Nobel peace prize for his contibution in 1970 and was also awarded by Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian honour for a foreign citizen. His work and dedication will always drive us to look beyond our boundaries and lets hope that we would be able to make at least 1% of difference what he made to this world .