University of Illinois Extension
April 5, 2007
P.L. Guatam, Vice Chancellor – G.B. Pantnager University of Ag & Tech
Five decades ago the people of India were on the brink of starvation. Then President Eisenhower called on the Land Grant system in the U.S. to help solve the problem. He promised a 1000 agricultural experts would converge on the sub-continent. Those from the University of Illinois helped to establish the G.B. Pant (gee bee pawnt) University of Agriculture and Technology. As Todd Gleason reports, their successors have returned to Pantnager (pawnt-n-nawger) to rekindle this decades old relationship with what today is noted as the birthplace of the green revolution.
 
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