European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse End the of there a Roertson wheat in Eai to once staved off a Mem Relief now seems in sight Lor store my Fei Hows of Asia. By Tom Stewart a staff Wetter a food production explosion in India and other empty belly nations offers real nope that they can toy their own efforts rather than hand outs prevent mass starvation in cant ing years. Struggling under he doable curse of runaway population and inability to meet their own food needs they have Long existed with the threat of famine on a scale the world has never in a remarkably Short time the experts have switched to the opinion Itne Edn t happen. Assuming reasonable monsoons,1william s. Gaud administrator of the . Agency for International develop ment said in an interview India clearly will be self sufficient in food grains to three or four years no question abort it Gaud would never have made such a prediction a 1965 or 1966, probably Notin 1967, but a development that is continuing today began to unfold in those years. The emerging nations Are to the threes of agn cultural revolution fuelled to super productive new hybrid Grain varieties developed by . Foundations to research centers in the philippine Sand Mexico. Anyone 1pbo ii i to fam now be aved i ent f Aid or. J. George Farrar nerf meat of tit Rockefeller four Damon a we do Bow have evidence thai it can be . Promising As it to the Ludden Spring Forward in agriculture leave tin 10 touched the companion Ling a 4amper on curve. But it will and tire 3s what today s planning or grf Lathi off Wirin i few meantime the ans i on tie switch to the new High yielding wheat and Rice hybrids. The new varieties Are to the Agri cultural revolution in Asia what pie steam engine was to the Industrial revolution in Europe says Lester Rbrown administrator of the department of agriculture International agricultural development service in 194-65, Brown said Only a few Hundred acres in Asia were planted tothe ir8 1tmirele Rice developed jointly by the Rock Gefeller and year in wheat by 30 per cent and i scrambling to exploit Flie new seed of 42,860ions Tif heat new improved year waa
