Multiple choice

Who was the originator of Green Revolution in India?

  1. M.S. Swaminathan

  2. Garry Backer

  3. Norman E. Borlaug

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Norman E. Borlaug, an American agronomist, is known as the father of the Green Revolution. He developed high-yielding, disease-resistant wheat varieties in Mexico, which were later introduced to India and Pakistan in the 1960s. M.S. Swaminathan adapted these technologies to Indian conditions. Garry Becker is an unrelated economist (Nobel laureate in Economics).

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