“Verghese Kurien, an engineer who led India's so-called White Revolution,†died on Sunday in Nadiad, in Gujarat, at 90 years, William Yardley wrote in The New York Times. Mr. Kurien “helped thousands of dairy farmers create cooperatives to produce and market milk, reducing hunger and poverty and eventually transforming India into the world's largest milk producer,†Mr. Yardley wrote.
Shortly after India gained independence, “Mr. Kurien returned from doing graduate work in mechanical engineering in the United States and began working at a government research creamery in Anand, a village in Gujarat,†Mr. Yardley wrote. “It was a way for him to repay the government for helping to finance his studies.†Read more '
