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Row 1. left to right: Kanwar Sain, Mekong; Madeleine C. Blanchet, Mekong; MakhamLiengphilavanh, Laos; Prakob Kanjanasoon, Thailand; Boonrod Binson, Thailand; Robert F. Chandler,IRRI; G. Hart Schaaf, Mekong; Nguyen Ngoc Tao, Vietnam; Anne Marie Milindavanij, Mekong; lsidroS. Macaspac, Mekong. Row 2, left to right: M.J. Van Liere, Mekong; Peter Kung, FAO; Cao Van Nau,Vietnam; Trat Quan Tien, Vietnam; Sombhot Suwanwaong, Thailand; Lt. Col. Myo Mint, Burma; N.Parthasarathy, India; Ben-nun Raanan, Israel; G.H. Assen, Mekong; Lykhoua Lyfoung, Laos. Row 3,left to right: Col. Arturo D. Sevilla, Philippines; Aung Khin, Burma; U Khin Mg Tint, Burma; RoemPurnariksha, Mekong; S.H. Ou, IRRI; Ponchai Pookamana, Bangkok; Michel R. Tisserand, Mekong;Randolph Barker, IRRI. Row 4, left to right: S.K. De Datta, IRRI; G. Hauser, FAO, Rome; H.N.Mukerjee. FAO. Bangkok; Henry M. Beachell, IRRI; D.S. Athwal, IRRI; Amir U. Khan, IRRI; D.E.Seaman, IRRI; A.C. McClung, IRRI. Row 5, left to right: S. Yoshida, IRRI; Ch. A. Massaux, Mekong;R.G. Bonnefond, FAO, Cambodia; T. Yoshida, IRRI; S. Johnson, IRRI; K.C. Ling, IRRI; W.G. Golden, Jr.,IRRI.Although Johnson worked for the Ford Foundation, it was understood thatIRRI would support him with breeding materials and visits by specialists.Because there was then no experimental area at Joydebpur and the land of theold experiment station near Dacca had been taken over as a site for governmentbuildings, Johnson had a difficult time initiating his program. He finallyobtained a tract of land at the Savar Farm, a large, government-run dairyenterprise. There he not only tested many IRRI lines and varieties but was thefirst to introduce in sizable quantities IR8-288-3 and IR9-60, two of IRRI'spromising selections in 1965. Two people who gave great assistance to Johnsonin dealing with government officials and launching his program were HaldoreHanson, Ford Foundation representative in Pakistan, and Robert D. Havener,there under a Ford Foundation contract with Michigan State University. 33It is interesting to note that Hanson became director general of CIMMYT in Mexico in 1972 andHavener succeeded him in 1978.
Early research and training results 145Although the Ford Foundation had direct-hired Johnson for its rice programin Bangladesh and similarly placed Rufus K. Walker in Malaysia for ashort period, it decided in 1966 to change its policy by providing funds to IRRI,which would hire the rice specialists and support their activities from the Fordfunds.The first arrangement of this type was in Pakistan. Hanson suggested thatIRRI use its Ford Foundation grant to employ Kenneth Mueller as a ricespecialist to lead the Pakistan accelerated rice production project. Hanson hadmet Mueller in Iran and learned that he was dissatisfied with what he couldaccomplish working for a commercial firm there and that earlier he had beena rice extension specialist in California. Mueller was hired and did a first-classjob in introducing IR8 in a massive way. The variety was dramaticallysuccessful in that environment of high solar radiation and abundant irrigationwater. When properly managed, IR8 yielded three to four times as much aslocal varieties and enabled the country to increase its rice production substantially.Much of Pakistan’s export trade in rice depended, however, upon Basmativarieties, which were in high demand because of their aromatic quality andthe characteristic elongation of the grain during cooking. Unfortunately, theBasmati rices had a poor plant type and lodged badly, with resultant lowyields. Despite this production constraint, Pakistan’s progress in substitutingthe high-yielding IR8 was held back, because IR8 could not command inforeign markets the price that the uniquely popular Basmati did. Because ofgenetic barriers, progress in breeding Basmati varieties with short, stiff strawhas been slow. Nevertheless, the work has been going forward and improvedBasmati types are now available.IRRI’s third outreach program, like the Ford Foundation’s original effort inBangladesh, did not include an Institute-hired person. The Rockefeller Foundationhad an agricultural program in Thailand and in 1966 decided to add BenR. Jackson (who is still with the program) as a rice breeder As with Ford’s menin Pakistan, Rockefeller made it clear that Jackson would look to IRRI for fullsupporting services and that, conversely, IRRI could depend upon Jackson asbeing its rice scientist in Thailand.Jackson spent several months at IRRI before starting his work in Thailandand carried a large collection of IRRI materials to his new post. He had not bredrice before but had worked with sorghum and millet in Ethiopia. Before joiningthe Foundation in 1966, he had been an associate professor of agronomy atOklahoma State University.Jackson, who had a pleasing personality and got along well with people,soon worked out a smoothly functioning cooperative program with the RiceDepartment in Thailand. He tested IRRI’s and other breeding materialsthoroughly and crossed the better selections with leading Thai varieties. Thiswas the beginning of the program that resulted in the development of the RDseries of varieties, many of which combine disease and insect resistance withtolerance for varying water depths, good grain quality, and high yield potential.
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CHAPTER 1An international institute
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