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Pioneer in Agriculture Receives Congressional Gold Medal
Duration: 07:10
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Program: Market to Market #3307
Broadcast Date: Oct. 19, 2007 -
Collection: World Food Prize
In July, 93-year-old Dr. Norman Borlaug was recognized for his lifelong work to fight world hunger through crop breeding with the Congressional Gold Medal. 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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