The program is designed for maize and wheat farmers like Josephat Langat.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

Borlaug remained involved with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, even after his research took him to other parts of the globe, where he replicated the success he had had in Mexico, building his reputation as father of the "green revolution" in the 1960's.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The researchers also found large containers of wheat, barley and apricots in the cave, along with a broken pot and sheep's horns.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

In nineteen forty-four, Borlaug left his job with DuPont, and began a project to increase Mexico's wheat production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He worked in the fields to show farmers new ways to grow wheat, rice and other crops.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

So separating the wheat from the chaff means keeping what is valuable and rejecting what is worthless.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

Borlaug worked in fields to show farmers new ways to grow crops like wheat and rice.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He became the head of the newly-formed Cooperative Wheat Research and Production Program in Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

And he worked in the laboratory to breed new wheat varieties that could resist disease.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Straw is the dried stem part of plants such as wheat, millet and sorghum.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Here is the first part of the poem: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

VOA: special.2011.07.17

And almost all Afghan farmers grow wheat to feed their families or to sell.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

He was looking at the little house and the field of yellow wheat.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The disease kills wheat plants by robbing them of water and nutrients.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Farmers had a new way to send wheat and grain to ports.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

There was enough rain. Huge crops of wheat and corn were produced.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

written by Carl Sandburg. Here is the first part of the poem: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker,Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;

VOA: special.2010.01.10

"I planted my own wheat and harvested and threshed and winnowed and ground that wheat into flour."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

A fungal disease called Ug99 has devastated wheat in Africa and is moving across central Asia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

In fact,he says replacing rice with whole grains such as whole wheat and barley could result in a 36 percent lower chance of developing Type 2 diabetes.

VOA: standard.2010.06.25

And while they're harvesting cotton in this field,they're planting wheat in fields nearby.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

In the past few months, the cost of wheat and sugar has more than doubled they say, and cooking gas, in constant short supply, can cost three times as much as it did a few months ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

We have a big job on our hands,". Borlaug expressed concern about a new variety of wheat stem rust attacking wheat plants in Africa and advocated greater coordination of researchers around the world to stop its spread.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13