Legends I Admire and Inspiried by

M.S. SWAMINATHAN

Many of you may not be familiar with the name, the less know what he did exactly to the human kind and especially to the poor countries. We may not be familiar with the hunger deaths or famine which killed and is killing millions of people in the world at regular intervals of time. Many Asians countries and African countries were living on one meal and were importing food grains and this was the major problem for the government at that period (today roads, electricity, petrol, terrorism, communalism, feminism and so on). Countries were depending on import food from rich nations who were exploiting the situation physically, financially and politically. During such times, a man from our Tamilnadu, M.S.Swaminathan, changed the lives of millions of people across the nations by Green Revolution. He brought seeds from other countries and cross breed them with the Indian seeds to get much more grain than the traditional harvest. And this became a revolution for the coming generations. Almost all the Hybrid seeds now we see are the results of that green revolution. He took the pains to develop the hybrid seeds which can grow on the different types of soil in India, its drastic climate conditions and the unpredictable rainfall. It was not the hybrid seed but the effort he put for convincing the bureaucracy and the political class of this country in this regard is considered as the major revolutionary. Today we are eating those seeds.

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