False, Norman Borlaug wanted farmers to have the advantage of crops developed to take advantage of traits present only in carefully-cultivated crossings. Later that was able to be done genetically. All he needed was farmer support and the government to quit interfering.
Here he is in his own words
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world.
Bottom Line: The anti-GMO folks in the West don't care that their crusade leaves many in Africa to starve to death.
