M.S. Swaminathan, ‘father’ of India’s green revolution, dies at 98
NEW DELHI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Indian agricultural scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, who ushered a “Green Revolution” in India nearly six decades ago that helped end famine and transformed the country as a top producer of wheat, died on Thursday aged 98. Swaminathan died at his home in southern India’s Chennai city following age-related illness, local media reported. He revolutionised farming in the 1960s when China was engulfed in a deadly famine and India barely got by on hand-to-mouth imports. Back then, Swaminathan was a young scientist who turned down plum positions in academia and the government to work in