linkedin post 2014-04-06 07:17:21

SO-CALLED GREEN REVOLUTION KILLED CROP DIVERSITY. “In India farmers have planted 30,000 different varieties of rice over the past 50 years. With the advent of green revolution varieties, this has changed. It is estimated that 75% of all rice fields in India were planted to just 10 varieties in 2005!”

http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/cropdiv.htm

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