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What did M. S. Swaminathan's Green Revolution do?

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Within two years of the introduction of Swaminathan's Japanese-Mexican wheat hybrid, Indian wheat production rose from 10 million tons a year to 18 million tons. By 2004 it stood at 80 million tons.

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