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The major achievements of the Green Revolution consisted of the development of high-yielding crop varieties, increased mechanization, synthetic fertilizers, a dizzying array of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, etc.), No doubt that global grain production is significantly higher, but at what cost?
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