(Radio Iowa) – Governor Kim Reynolds spent about a third of the month of September on a trade mission in India.
Reynolds says the groundwork for her meetings was laid decades ago by the Iowa native who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his research that improved wheat and rice yields. Borlaug took a wheat variety he’d developed to India in the mid-1960s and increased wheat production there by 60 percent.
Reynolds says she and the other Iowans who were part of the delegation spent a lot of time talking about how Iowa and India can take that next step and continue to feed and fuel the world together.
