In 1968, the year a U.S. aid official coined the term “Green Revolution” to describe the Rockefeller package, Borlaug gave a victory-lap speech at a wheat meeting in Australia. Twenty years before, he said, Mexican farmers had reaped about 760 pounds of wheat from every acre planted. Now the figure had risen to almost 2,500 pounds per acre—triple the harvest from the same land. The same thing was happening in India, he said. The first Green Revolution wheat had been tested there in the 1964–65 growing season. It had been so successful that the government had tested it on seven thousand acres
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