Let us mourn, dear friends. Let us mourn as we have lost one of the best friends of the suffering humanity of our time. Let us stand up and observe silence to pay homage for Professor Norman Borlaug who is no more with us. He has died on Saturday, 12th of September, 2009, in his home in Dallas, USA. He has been a cancer patient for a long time. He was 95.

He was born in Iowa in 1914. He was a student in the University of Minnesota. He served for DuPont and Rockefeller Foundation. DuPont, we know, is an infamous industrial house in the globe. But Professor Borlaug managed to find opportunity there too in his distant target.

In 1970 he was awarded Nobel Peace Prize for innovative contribution to the field of agriculture and for the development of high-yielding seeds. His researches and inventions of high-yielding and disease-proof seeds have doubled the global food production within 30 years from 1960. He has saved millions of Latin America, South Asia and Africa. He is the ‘Father of the Green Revolution’.

University of Minnesota

The Nobel Committee has admired him in the following language: (Professor Norman Borlaug) has helped to provide bread for a hungry world.

In fact he has saved the world from an obviously devastating famine of the second half of the last century. He has great anxiety for the global hunger even before his final departure from us. He has advised us not to forget the present situation of explosive human misery.

Let us mourn, dear friends, for a person who has responded to our eternal prayer that states: Give us our daily bread.

Borlaug’s Research Stations at Yaqui Valley and Chapingo