BBC Business Daily: India’s Green Revolution

BBC Business Daily: India’s Green Revolution

Business Daily – BBC, 01 December 2016. Presenter: Ed Butler. Interview with Fraser Thompson.

Today we are talking revolutions – not those fought on the battlefield or city streets – but those waged in agriculture. It’s 50 years since a Green Revolution began transforming India’s rice production, and soon afterwards Asia’s ability to feed itself more generally. A similar transformation also happened in Latin America.

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