April 5, 2007
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.