Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

博洛格开始在洛克菲勒基金会资助的墨西哥项目中工作，通过开发高产品种来提高小麦产量。

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Wheat is the most widely planted crop in the world, providing a fifth of mankind's calories.

小麦是世界上种植最广泛的作物，为全世界五分之一的人口提供口粮。

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China is the largest producer of wheat, a Middle Eastern crop, and of potatoes, originally from South America.

中国是原产自中东的小麦以及原产自南美的土豆的最大生产国。

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In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

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