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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (4667)	6/19/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

The Seeds of Wrath. ....And so to Madras and Professor Swaminathan. The professor's Centre for Research on Sustainable Agriculture is an ecological haven on the edge of a vilely polluted city. His office overflows with cups and citations to "a living legend". Swaminathan got his doctorate in genetics at Cambridge and, as a government research scientist in the 60s, showed that India could triple its production of wheat using different varieties, chemical fertilisers and pesticides. It did, and in a time of drought and famine, Swaminathan became a state hero... newsunlimited.co.uk