A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution ... yields of the modified rice were 40 to 70 percent higher than those of the conventional varieties.

“The next green revolution will supercharge the tools ... began a series of crossbreeding experiments. He had 10,000 varieties of rice seeds to work with. His eighth cross—between a dwarf ...

A research team led by Prof. Xu Cao from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of ...

Union Agriculture Minister announces development of genome-edited rice varieties, leading to second green revolution in India.

May 4, 2025, could be a significant day in the history of agriculture. On that day, Indian agriculture minister Shri Shivraj ...

especially wheat and rice since the 1950s-1960s, is termed as the Green Revolution. American scientist Norman Ernest Borlaug developed and introduced new High Yielding Varieties (HYVs) of wheat in ...

Meru, Embu, and Tharaka Nithi counties are witnessing a green revolution with the rapid adoption of high-yielding upland rice varieties. This promising shift is spearheaded by a collaboration ...

In the early 1990s, after realizing that more than 90% of India’s native rice varieties had been replaced by a handful of high-yielding varieties through the Green Revolution, Deb began conserving ...

particularly the development of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of rice and wheat during the Green Revolution of the 1960s. These innovations have yielded enormous benefits, significantly ...

The newly released rice varieties - FARO 71 and FARO 72 - are ... and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). 'This breakthrough mirrors successful efforts in Bangladesh and India ...

In one of India’s memorable policy changes, which came to be called the Green Revolution, in the 1960s, India started to produce imported High-Yielding Varieties (HYVs) of wheat and rice.