The Green Revolution In Asia

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P0: Effects of Hoppers ..............................16
Figure P1: Habitat of Brown Hopper .........................17
Figure P2: Wolf Spider......................................18
Figure P3: Black Bug .......................................19
Figure #4: Irrigated Rice Harvesting .......................20
Chart #1: Rice Production...................................21
Chart #2: Fertilizer Use in 1993 ...........................22
Bibliography ...............................................23

The Problem: With the high and rapidly growing population of Asia,
many people go hungry. How can the world support these people?; and, how
can these people feed themselves? What cost will this have on the
environment? What is being done to help these people.

The Solution: The Green Revolution is a solution that has been at work
since the 1960's. It has been developing new and better ways at producing
food.

Background to the Green Revolution: The Green Revolution ...

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With the Green Revolution: Problems that have occurred are
that the people that need the machinery cannot afford to buy clothes let
alone pay for huge machines that have to be shipped in from developed
countries and the shipping must be paid for. Even if the farmers could
afford the machinery, they would have to be taught how to use it properly.
Finding fuel, and the money to buy the fuel, in the middle of Africa, for
instance, is impossible.
The developed world produced the new wheat and rice varieties. To
genetically engineer a new strain of food, a company or government must pay
scientists (including agronomists, geneticists, biologists, chemists,
nuclear scientists, ...

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