How 100kg seeds from Mexico made India a wheat basket

Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on September 28, 2023
India’s crowning glory in scientific advancement may well be the Moon-landing, but a more substantial triumph is the use of plant genetics to boost food production. Until 1965, when the population was more than 500 million, wheat output in India was barely 12 million tonnes. It was a country infamously living...

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