What was the Green Revolution?
In the ancient history of humanity, up to civilization, it appeared about 12,000 years ago, our primary food sources were meat and fish. This high protein diet was necessary to maintain human growth and power our unusually large brains. Other meals, such as berries, nuts and roots, served as a small snack that unfolded us between meat based on meat. Today, grains supply 70% of food energy that feeds humanity. In the mid -20th century, farmers used about 10% of the earth's land for crop growing and other expansions seemed doubtful, because the new countries have bad properties for agriculture. The only alternative was to increase the yields on the agricultural land that we have already had. The reason and allowing our global exponential growth of the population to continue unlimited. The two main fields that experienced rapid progress were plant genetics and synthetic fertilizers. These progress and their consequences are so important that they have been given the name: Green Revolution .
As part of the Green Revolution, synthetic fertilizers were produced in bulk using new nitrogen fixation techniques, especially the derivatives of the haber-bosch process. In the haber-bosch process, atmospheric nitrogen is processed into usable fertilizer at high temperatures and pressures. This published our dependence on existing fixed nitrogen sources, such as Bat Guano, which had to be exported worldwide from South America before synthetic fertilizers. The Green Revolution changed it all.
starts in the mid -1940s, botanists experienced breakthroughs in their Onderstand of Plant Genetics and began to breed wheat tribes that significantly increased production. Mexico itself recorded three times the growth of wheat production between 1944 and 1964. The Nobel Peace Prize from 1970 was awarded to Norman E. Borlaug for his work to increase the productivity of crops. In the age of 60, the so-called "Miracle Rice", IR-8, was plantedAll over the world, allowing rice production as never-a-green revolution.
The advantage of these new plants was that they bloomed more easily than the previous tribes. Wheat and rice require a certain number of light hours a day - called photoperiod - to make a flower and start to produce grain. The new tribes developed as part of the Green Revolution have reduced the necessary exposure to the sun in a day, allowing the discontinuation and harvest of crops faster and to the wider range of top and seasonal conditions. These progress were particularly beneficial to the poorer nations of the world, which lacks advanced agriculture technology, but have enough agricultural land to set all seeds available on the world market. These nations benefit from the Green Revolution most.