Abstract
We read that India has harvested 95 million tons of wheat this summer, 6 million tons more than the previous best harvest. Much credit is given to the U.S. foreign-aid program in which farm experts from the U.S. introduced high-yielding strains of wheat, helped build fertilizer plants, and overcame some of the natural suspicion and doubts of the people of the country by getting some of them to take part. This is not the first time that grain production has been increased significantly by the introduction of scientifically based methods and technological improvements. It was done with corn in Mexico under the leadership of the Rockefeller Foundation and that spirit has been carried into some of the rice-growing regions of the Philippines and other areas of the Orient. While such achievements are not a sign we have overcome broad problems of feeding the world's people, they allow certain spare comfort to be taken from what ...
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