Adapt Quote by Bill Gates

Many African smallholder farmers did not share in the 'green revolution' productivity gains driven by modern seeds and techniques, irrigation, and greater fertilizer use…

— Arancha Gonzalez

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

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

There is talk about the need for a second Green Revolution. However, such a revolution is nowhere in sight.

— M. S. Swaminathan

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous…

— Jared Diamond

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…

— Norman Borlaug

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

In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't…

— Jonah Goldberg

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

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 technologies are scale-neutral but not resource-neutral. Inputs are needed for output; therefore market-purchased inputs become important in providing soil and plant healthcare…

— M. S. Swaminathan

The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation…

— Robyn Davidson