Plant Diseases, Drought, Desolation, Despair Were Recurrent

Cereal Production In The Rain-fed Areas Still Remains Relatively Unaffected By The Impact Of The Green Revolution, But Significant Change And Progress Are Now Becoming Evident In Several Countries

The Green Revolution Has An Entirely Different Meaning To Most People In The Affluent Nations Of The Privileged World Than To Those In The Developing Nations Of The Forgotten World.

Some Of The Environmental Lobbyists Of The Western Nations Are The Salt Of The Earth, But Many Of Them Are Elitists. They Have Never Experienced The Physical Sensation Of Hunger. They Do Their Lobbying From Comfortable Office Suites In Washington Or Brussels. If They Lived Just One Month Amid The Misery Of The Developing World, As I Have For Fifty Years, They Would Be Crying Out For Tractors, And Fertilizer, And Irrigation Canals, And Be Outraged That Fashionable Elitists Back Home Were Trying To Deny Them These Things.

There Are No Miracles In Agricultural Production.

Even If You Could Use All The Organic Material That You Have--the Animal Manures, The Human Waste, The Plant Residues--and Get Them Back On The Soil, You Couldn't Feed More Than 4 Billion People. In Addition, If All Agriculture Were Organic, You Would Have To Increase Cropland Area Dramatically, Spreading Out Into Marginal Areas And Cutting Down Millions Of Acres Of Forests.