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With USAID shut, Borlaug's institute seeks India's help
Financial Express Lucknow
|July 11, 2025
SIX DECADES AGO, the legendary agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug ushered in India's Green Revolution through his high-yielding, semi-dwarf wheat varieties such as Lerma Rojo 64A, Sonora 63, Sonora 64 and Mayo 64.
Today, his organization — the Mexico-headquartered International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center or CIMMYT — is reaching out to the Indian government and the private sector, seeking financial support for its breeding research and development programme in the two cereals that cover over a quarter of the world's cropped area.
The reason: A funding crunch brought about by global factors, including the shutting down of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by the Donald Trump administration, officially from July 1.
This story is from the July 11, 2025 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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