Who is called as "The Father of Indian Green Revolution"?

• Dr. M S Swaminathan is the “Father of the Green Revolution in India”.

•An agricultural scientist and agronomist, he has been considered the main architect of the green revolution in India.

•He had a crucial role in developing the high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice, which were insect resistant and produced high-quality crops.

•His collaborative efforts with Norman Borlaug had made a significant impact on evading famine-like conditions in India.

•The World Food Prize, also known as the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture, was awarded for the first time in 1987 to M S Swaminathan. The United Nations Environment Programme has addressed him as the “Father of Economic Ecology”.

•The Green Revolution has increased the production of foodgrains with high-yielding variety of seeds. 

The primary aim of the Green Revolution was to solve the food crisis and the modernisation of agriculture.

Wheat, rice, jowar, maize, and bajra were the major food grains in the Green Revolution.

Norman Borlaug is known as the “Father of Green Revolution” in the world.