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C The worldwide 20{n} century “Green Revolution", which saw huge year-by-year increases in global grain vields (产量), was fueled by the development in the 1960s of new high-yielding dwarfed (矮小的) varieties known as Green Revolution Varieties (GRVs).These dwarfed GRVs are common al...
根据第一段The worldwide 20th century "Green Revolution",which saw huge year-by-year increases in global grain yields (产量),was fueled by the development in the 1960s of new high-yielding dwarfed (矮小的) varieties known as Green Revolution Varieties (GRVs).( 20世纪60年代,被称为"绿色革命...
In Poland, close to the Czech border, the tiny spa town of Ladek-Zdroj started changing everything to become more eco-friendly. The town’s leader, Mayor Roman Kaczmarczyk, turned a seemingly impossible idea—switching out wheat fields for solar panel arrays—into a shining example of clean ...
With the deepening energy revolution, new technologies and models like smart grids, new energy storage and virtual power plants are continuously surfacing. The rapid advancement of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence,...
supply. To promote green development, an “energy revolution” must be promoted. Third, the cleanup of the industrial sector is the key to carbon mitigation and pollution reduction. The development of the real economy still rests on the manufacturing industry’s keeping up a good pace in its ...
In the course of the past 60 years, the green revolution catalyzed the spread of modern crop varieties for staple crops such as wheat, maize and rice throughout the developing world. It also exemplifies successful U.S. international cooperation—the Rockefeller and Ford foundations were the initia...
M.S. Swaminathan(born August 7, 1925,Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India—died September 28, 2023, Chennai, Tamil Nadu) was an Indian geneticist and agricultural scientist who spearheadedIndia’s agricultural transformation. Known as the “father of thegreen revolution” in India, hecollaboratedwith Ame...
Countries all over the world, in turn, benefited from the Green Revolution work conducted by Borlaug and this research institution. India, for example, was on the brink of mass famine in the early 1960s because of itsrapidly growing population. Borlaug and the Ford Foundation then implemented ...
The Green Revolutionbegan in Mexico, when after world war two the country had major problems with food shortages. New hybrids of wheat and maize were developed, these new varieties were dwarf plants capable of withstanding strong wind, heavy rain and disease, which had been the major cause of...