THE AMERICAS: The Food Finders

On a 1,200-acre plot dotted with ten brick buildings a few miles outside Bogota is a privately operated project that one American diplomat calls "the most outstanding example of technical assistance in South America." There last week five grain specialists, with their assistants, painstakingly harvested and examined 30,000 different wheat strains from Canada, Russia, the U.S., Germany, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Mexico, India, while other workers planted experimental fields containing thousands more for harvest and research next year. Some day soon the scientists of Tibaitata Experiment Station hope to find the strains that best combine yield, taste, nutritional quality, disease...

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