Borlaug Receives Congressional Gold Medal
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Program: Market to Market #3246
Broadcast Date: Jul. 20, 2007
This week, in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, President Bush presented the Congressional Gold Medal to Iowa native and agricultural scientist, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug. With his family present, the 93-year-old Borlaug was recognized for his lifelong work to fight world hunger through crop breeding.
Sent to Mexico by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1940s, Dr. Borlaug worked years to develop a high yielding, disease-resistant variety of wheat that could be raised in hard-to-grow areas. The wheat, and agricultural production techniques implemented at the time, has been credited with saving more than a billion lives ... and earned him the title, "Father of the Green Revolution."
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