1960s Quote by Arancha Gonzalez

The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three…

— Bill Gates

To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and…

— Ban Ki-moon

Till 1966 when the Green Revolution came to Punjab, nobody grew this crop. Only when farmers saw money in it, did they start rice cultivation.

— Amarinder Singh

Green Revolution 1.0 came in 1966-67. I was a farmer then myself. Back then, we were getting food from wherever there was a surplus,…

— Amarinder Singh

A decade ago, critics suggested biotech crops would not be valuable in the developing world. Now 90 percent of farmers who benefit are resource-poor…

— Clive James

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can…

— Bill Gates

The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are…

— Richard Attias

A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into…

— Jairam Ramesh

To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving…

— M. S. Swaminathan

Back in the 1960s Africa not only fed itself, it also exported food. Not anymore.

— George Ayittey

The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the…

— Norman Borlaug

Farmers can't plant much more land because almost every accessible acre of arable soil is already in use. Nor can the use of fertilizer…

— Charles C. Mann