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—Nobel laureate concerned
over growing populations
By PATRICE KORANEK
M j Staff Writer
11 K Revolution is never easy to accept.
Not even when it’s the Green Revo
lution that helped fill millions of
«Service stomachs in India, Pakistan and
?rcise maijother Third World countries in the
physical late sixties.
of preitt; But when a national leader like
dS), a Iplndira Gandhi sows the idea in the
y indicates minds of her people, it can take off
oral stude; like a fast growing weed,
lucationtill Norman Borlaug, the “father of
: menstrui! the Green Revolution,” Nobel Prize
on thefwinner and Texas A&M distin-
>n anexter guished professor of international
search oti agriculture, said Gandhi nourished
tysiologica the seeds of revolt.
non-scieii; Borlaug said he was having tea
lents. witli the former prime minister
that aet when Gandhi turned to him and
e symptoc asked if something was really hap-
hr.nge,deepening on the farms,
ity said. “I said something is about to hap-
tl studies pen and a lot of it depends on what
:s a releast you do now,” he said. “And then she
called eti: did a wonderful thing. She recog-
ts believe nized (the importance of) the psy-
vation in chology of change. Before planting
ho exert she said ‘I want everyone who’s en
gaged in agriculture to put in a little
utthere;ii plot of this wheat that the ministry
1 with w nas said how to grow.’ And then in
'shesaid. front of her residence, on this big,
do expen main, wide street in New Delhi, she
ovulation had someone dig up a bunch of sod
; of theircand plant it the way it should have
linorityTbeen, It was beautiful. Of course the
nated thi birds came and ate it up, but when
areaffectc:P e,, ld e saw it the job had been do-
ent believe: ne -
■The job was getting people all
I symptoir, over the world to accept the new va
les, bacbc'fities of wheat developed by Borlaug
ireastswel an d his colleagues. In 1984 those va-
ig sweets r *ties, and the technology that went
ue. The i with them, produced enough food
de tearfulpfot 250 million more people than
1 tension tot old practices had produced in
ssion the India before 1966.
■That was 20 years ago.
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Today, too, the world faces food
problems Borlaug said. One is to
produce enough, the second is to
distribute it equitably to those who
need more food, he said.
“At the rate world population is
growing now, it will become eight
billion by 2025 or 2035,” Borlaug
said. “It is frightening because most
of this increased food in the majority
of the countries will have to come
from increased yields from land al
ready under cultivation.”
In the densely populated coun
tries there isn’t any more land that
can be brought under profitable cul
tivation. But Borlaug asked, if we
double or triple the yield in the next
twenty years, what will we do the
next time.
“I’m concerned because the world
has been mislead by the lullaby that
it can continue to. support and give a
high standard of living to untold
doublings of the world population,”
Borlaug said. “This isn’t so. Some
where along the line we will reach a
point where more and more people
are going to be short of the basic ne
cessities.
“I would be less than frank with
you if I didn’t say that most of us
who work on the food front would
be guilty of negligence if we don’t
speak out and say that there is a cer
tain carrying capacity and a certain
standard of living for this world of
ours.”
Borlaug said the time is coming
when we will have to decide how to
deal with the “population monster.”
“Any good rancher knows that if
he’s got 100 or 1,000 acres of land ...
he will carry so many head of cows,”
he said. “If* you get a dry year they
will die or you will have to sell at a
miserable price. This is the carrying
capacity. We do it in livestock, but
when we talk about human numbers
it seems to be a very abstract thing.”
Science and technology has cre
ated an abundance right now, espe
cially in the United States, Borlaug
said, but some place down the road
the area will reach the limiting carry
ing capacity.
People have to be taught that
there is such a thing as a carrying ca
pacity and a certain standard of liv
ing that the world can reach, he said.
“I say that we can hold the line
during the next doubling of the
world population, until we reach
eight billion, but that assumes that
governments give agriculture a high
enough priority and that they invest
enough in the agricultural sector, in
transport systems, in fertilizer
plants, in irrigation development, in
the whole thing that relates to agri
cultural production,” Borlaug said.
Borlaug received the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1970 for his work in genetic
research in field crops. He is the
only agriculturalist to receive that
award. Borlaug was director of the
wheat research and production pro
gram at the international maize and
wheat improvement center in Mex
ico from 1964 to 1979.
He joined the faculty of A&M in
January of 1984 after holding many
assignments throughout the world.
Borlaug teaches a graduate course
on international agriculture.
Borlaug said he tries to teach two
things in his class.
“One, give them a good, broad,
general education on where this civi
lization of ours came from, how we
got to where we are, and presumably
where we want to go and what’s
going to happen to us unless we han
dle ourselves properly,” he said.
“And two, try to stimulate these peo
ple to broaden themselves, to be con
cerned citizens, not just in agricul
ture but how all the pieces fit
together in culture and the human
progress or retrogression.”
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health care in 1983, the most re-
Bcent period for which full-year
figures are available, Internal
Medicine News said.
The sum, an increase of 10.3
percent over the previous year, is
equal to 10.8 percent of the na
tion’s gross national product. It
amounts to $1,459 for every man,
woman and child in the United
States. Of that amount, 41.9 per
cent was spent by federal, state
and local governments.
Spending for physicians’ serv
ices was $69 billion, or nearly 20
percent of all health spending,
the publication noted.
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A&M provides hope for village;
several universities follow lead
By REBECCA DE LONG
Reporter
The success of Texas A&M’s Vil
lage of Hope has inspired other uni
versities to launch their own cam
paigns to benefit the Christian
Children’s Fund.
Students at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana emulated
the project, and plans are now un
derway at the University of Texas
and Texas Tech University to adopt
villages and teach the people self-
sufficiency, said Dr. Robert Scott
Kellner, advisor for the project.
Kellner said he has been in con
tact with interested students at UT
and Texas Tech. Kellner said he
hopes that if these schools are suc
cessful in their sponsorships, the
trend will spread nationwide.
“They really see in it some poten
tial for world peace,” Kellner said.
Last year A&M student organiza
tions, along with local community
members, raised and donated almost
$25,000 for the entire village in Am-
aga, Colombia.
Mike Cavanaugh, president of the
Village of Hope committee, is opti
mistic about this year’s drive.
“We don’t see any problems in
meeting our goals,” Cavanaugh said,
“but we want to get a foundation for
a permanent Village of Hope.”
Goals for the village include set
ting up a medical clinic and finding a
way to bring electricity to more
homes in the village.
Several A&M students are taking
a personal interest in these two
goals.
Ozark Airlines reaches labor agreement
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS — Negotiators for
Ozark Airlines and the International
Association of Machinists reached an
agreement on a labor contract early
Thursday, less than three hours af
ter the union said it was on strike.
Spokesmen for the union and the
airline said the agreement was
reached at approximately 2:30 a.m.
“We have been informed that a
package will be coming back to be
voted on by the membership,” said
Gary Poos, general chairman of Dis
trict 142 of the machinists union.
“We’re telling our people to go back
to work.”
Picket lines had been reported at
Springfield (Mo.) Regional Airport
and at Lambert Field in St. Louis.
Chuck Ehlert, an Ozark spokes
man, said the brief walkout had no
effect on the airline’s operations
Wednesday night.
More than 1,500 agents, reserva
tion workers and clerical workers
had gone on strike just after mid
night, Poos said.
After the agreement was an
nounced, Poos said he had no
timetable for a ratification vote by
the union membership.
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