How did it help world famine? By planting cereal crops the green revolution provided protein that less wealthy countries could get from meat because of its expenses. Although in this time population doubled crop production then tripled during this period leading to the decrease of world famine.
70% of crop yields increased
India's status changed from food deficient to leading agricultural nation
What did they do in order to succeed?
Combined Borlaug's wheat varieties with new mechanized agricultural techniques
Introduced chemical fertilizers,synthetic herbicides and pesticides, high yield crops and method of multiple crops
Trialed in different countries and persuaded farmers to try out their new and improved way
Borlaug and team used biotechnology in different conditions