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.

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 ...

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 ...

By the 1990s, the yields of wheat and rice had doubled worldwide, staving off bouts of recurring famine. The Green Revolution was ... Plus, crossbreeding new varieties to produce desirable traits ...

In the early 1990s, after realizing that more than 90% of India’s native rice varieties had been replaced by a handful of high-yielding varieties through the Green Revolution, Deb began conserving ...

“The green revolution has a direct impact towards the disappearance of thousands of Indonesian rice varieties,” Indonesia’s Bogor Agricultural Institute biotechnology professor Dwi Andreas ...

Soon, it also found high-yielding varieties of rice ... It procured rice and wheat. Agriculture in green revolution states cannot be saved unless a substantial part of rice cultivation is moved ...

This was the Green Revolution’s biggest success ... When years of war had destroyed many traditional rice varieties in countries like Cambodia, its farmers could rely on IRRI’s gene bank ...

The Nigerian government has partnered to introduce two rice varieties to boost nutrition ... and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in achieving the feat. According to him ...

2025), announced the development of two genome-edited rice varieties and said the technological advancement would lead to a second green revolution in the country. The new varieties would be made ...

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.