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    Gebisa Ejeta

    Gebisa Ejeta was born in the Ethiopian village of Wollonkomi in 1950. As a boy he would leave his family’s thatched hut every Sunday and walk 12 miles so that he could attend a school in a neighboring town during the week, returning home on Fridays. Ejeta went on to study at Jimma Agricultural and Technical School and Alemaya College, both established by Oklahoma State University with U.S. government funding. Ejeta came to the United States in 1974 to pursue his PhD in plant breeding and genetics at Purdue University in Indiana. His focus was sorghum, a staple crop used throughout sub-Saharan Africa to make flatbreads, porridges, and beverages. Through his research in Sudan for the nonprofit International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and as a professor at Purdue, Ejeta made several breakthroughs. In the 1980s he developed the first high-yield hybrid sorghum varieties able to withstand drought in Africa. In the 1990s he developed new sorghum variet

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    Gebisa Ejeta

    Ethiopian American geneticist

    Gebisa Ejeta (born 1950[1]) is an Ethiopian American plant breeder, geneticist and Professor at Purdue University.[2] In 2009, he won the World Food Prize for his major contributions in the production of sädesslag.

    Early years

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    Ejeta was born in the remote village Wollonkomi, Ethiopia to Oromo parents.[3] Encouraged bygd his mother, he walked 20 kilometres to the nearest elementary school every Sunday evening and spend the week there.

    During primary school, Ejeta planned to study engineering when he reached college age. However, his mother convinced him he could do more working in agriculture. With assistance from the Oklahoma State University, he attended an agricultural and technical secondary school in Ethiopia, and also studied at what is now Haramaya University. The university and the U.S. Agency for International Development helped him earn a doctorate from Purdue University.

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