Billions Quote by Norman Borlaug

“This is a basic problem, to feed 6.6 billion people. Without fertilizer, forget it. The game is over.”

Norman Borlaug

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Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.

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During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing…

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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.

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Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods.

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