Syed Hedayetullah, born in 1904 in Bogra District of the Bengal Presidency and died August 29, 1973, in Dhaka, is considered a primary figure in shaping agriculture in Bangladesh. He served as founding fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, founding principal of Agriculture College, Dhaka, from 1944 to 1949, and Director of Agriculture for the Government of East Pakistan from 1949 to 1956, developing sixty superior strains of rice, among them varieties known as dharial, galsura and nigarshail, and helping to establish modern Bangladeshi agriculture and food self-sufficiency. He held degrees from Presidency College and the University of Calcutta, King's College London, and earned his PhD in cytogenetics from the University of London in 1932.
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NationalityBorn in the Bengal Presidency of British India in what is now Bangladesh and served the Government of East Pakistan; the article's infobox gives his citizenship as Bangladesh, and the lead calls him a main architect of agriculture in Bangladesh. Defining ContributionCredited with establishing modern Bangladeshi agriculture and food self-sufficiency, having developed 60 superior strains of rice 1 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Bangladesh, nationality there.
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1. Wikipedia: Syed Hedayetullah
Biography section, first sentence
Hedayetullah was born in the Bogra District, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh) in 1904.
Death section, first sentence
Hedayetullah died in Dhaka on 29 August 1973, aged 68 or 69.
Lead section, first paragraph, first sentence
is considered a main architect of agriculture in Bangladesh
Lead section, first paragraph, final sentence
He is credited with establishing modern Bangladeshi agriculture and food self-sufficiency, having developed 60 superior strains of rice.
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