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Title: The ‘Green Revolution’ transformed global agriculture. Now it’s adapting to climate change

The sentence you've misquoted:

> Through its breeding program, it has developed about two-thirds of the wheat varieties and a third of the maize varieties grown worldwide.

... developing varieties and wheat production are two very-different things. In Maize specifically the world has eliminated a lot of varieties in favour of low-fiber, high-sugar varieties.



That's fair, did this in haste, my bad




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