Fertilizer

Fertilizer

• New varieties responded reproductively
• Grain yields drastically increased
  • Mexico
    • 1950: 300,000 metric tons of wheat
    • 1970: 2,600,000 metric tons of wheat
  • Worldwide
    • 1950: 14 million tons of food
    • 1990: 144 million tons of food

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