PTI
 
New Delhi, Mar 12: The miracle seeds that ushered the country’s green revolution were first sown at a bungalow in Delhi where former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee now resides.

Revealing this in the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the seeds invented by American scientist Norman Borlaug had been first test sown in the residence of the then agriculture minister C Subramaniam in Krishna Menon Marg which is now occupied by Vajpayee.

At that point of time, there was substantial cooperation between universities and colleges of India and the US that facilitated the green revolution.

"We all know that in the last 7-8 years, agriculture productivity has reached a plateau," he said adding if scientists of India and US could cooperate, the country could replicate the experience of the 60s to bring out the second green revolution in the country.

The first green revolution concentrated mainly on irrigated lands, he said, adding the second green revolution should concentrate on increasing productivity of dry land farming on which a sizeable Indian farmers depended upon.