Glifosanto - Glyphosanto

ARRIETA, EZEQUIEL; GUERRIERI, FERNANGO MORDI; PIZARRO, HAYDEÉ NORMA

Journal of Science, Humanities and Arts - JOSHA

International Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts

Año: 2023 vol. 10

n Mexico, in the 1940s, an American agronomist named Norman Borlaug developed a variety of wheat resistant to a fungus that infects wheat and corn crops, thus managing to double crop production and leading Mexico to become an exporting country of grains. Then, with the aim of reducing mass famine on a global scale, scientists improved the yields of a few crops (such as corn, wheat, rice, and potatoes) to efficiently provide food for the growing population. However, relying on so few crops left us highlyvulnerable to attack by pests including unwanted herbs, insects, and fungi. Thus, it became increasingly clear that the only way to keep a huge field grown with only one species (such as corn) pest-free was byapplying synthetic pesticides, such as DDT and glyphosate. This is their story.