Borlaug

Borlaug N (1995) Fertilizer use in Sub-Saharan Africa - keynote address to the roundtable of science advisors for science-led development in Africa. Maputu, Mozambique Bulluck III LR, Brosius M, Evanylo GK, Ristaino JB (2002) Organic and synthetic fertility amendments influence soil microbial, physical and chemical properties on organic and conventional farms. Appl Soil Ecol 19 147-160... 

Pesticides are chemical or biological substances intended to control weeds, insects, fungi, rodents, bacteria, and other pests. They protect food crops and livestock, control household pests, promote agricultural productivity, and protect public health. The importance of pesticides to modern society can be summarized by a statement made by Norman E. Borlaug, the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Let s get our priorities in perspective. We must feed ourselves and protect ourselves against the health hazards of the world. To do that, we must have agricultural chemicals. Without them, the world population will starve [1]. 

N.E. Borlaug, in Water and Water policy in World Food Supplies, Proc. of the Conf., May 26-30, Texas University, Texas A M University Press, College Station, Texas (1985). 

Borlaug, N. (1997). Human population, food demands, and wildlife needs. In A. Dil, ed., Norman Borlaug on World Hunger. San Diego, CA Bookservice International, pp. 79-93. 

Department of Plant Pathology, 495 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 ... 

Quinones, M.A. Borlaug, N.E. and C.R. Dowswell (1997) A fertilizer-based green revolution for Africa.- In Buresh, R.J. et al. (eds) (1997) Replenishing soil fertility in Africa.- Pp. 81-95. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, USA. 

Up to that point, safflower seed production had been on a continued upward spiral in the United States, which carried through to 1963. Safflower oil had been price competitive with soybean oil, particularly in the western United States and Japan, since soybean oil produced in the Midwest was at a freight disadvantage. The introduction into California of new varieties of wheat developed by the Borlaug program in Mexico allowed California farmers to achieve increasingly better wheat yields. In the 1950s, safflower was easily able to compete with wheat or barley as a rotation crop for California s rice or cotton farmers, but once wheat yields increased and safflower yields remained constant, safflower seed prices (and consequently oil prices) were forced to rise to compete for the farmer s favor. 

Not all accepted that bird reproduction toxicity was a serious problem and that DDT should be banned. In October 1971 Nature had a comment from the Nobel Peace Price winner Norman E. Borlaug that symbolized the green revolution. 

An impassioned plea on behalf of DDT was delivered in Washington last week by Norman E. Borlaug, recipient of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on high yield wheat strains. Borlaug, who testified in a public hearing on the cancellation order imposed on the pesticide by the Environmental Protection Agency, said at a press conference later ... 

In spite of Borlaug s warning, DDT has been phased out in almost all countries. Borlaug s view still gets support, but now more from the health workers. Smith (2000) wrote ... 

De Montfort University Norman Borlaug Centre for Plant Science, Institute of Experimental Botany ASCR,... 

De Montfort University, Norman Borlaug Cntr. Plant Science, Inst, of Exp. Botany ASCR, Rozvojova 135, Prague 6, CZ 165 02 Czech Republic... 

S. Niranjan Raj, S. N. Lavanya, J. Sudisha, and H.S. Shetty, Application of plant derived gums for induction of growth promotion and disease resistance in crop plants. Proceedings of Dr. E. Norman Borlaug commemoration National conference on Plant diversity and plant health. Department of Studies in Botany, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore. 2009. 

Norman Borlaug, one of the leaders in developing and diffusing these new culti-vars, summed up the importance of fertilizer nitrogen in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 by using a memorable kinetic analogy ... 

Borlaug, N. 1970. The Green Revolution peace and humanity. A speech on the occasion of the awarding of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, December 11, 1970. Text at http //www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/issues/97jan/borlaug/speech. 

A much more optimistic outlook prevailed during the 1970s. Near the end of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Norman Borlaug spoke about a dream of... 

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