Agricultural revolutionary is honored
President Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to agriculture scientist Norman Borlaug, whose work on high-yield, disease-resistant varieties of wheat is credited with starting the “Green Revolution” and alleviating starvation in India and Pakistan in the 1960s.
“The most fitting tribute we can offer this good man is to renew ourselves to his life’s work, and lead a second Green Revolution that feeds the world, and today we’ll make a pledge to do so,” Bush said at a Capitol Rotunda ceremony.
Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.
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