Another covert deal, sans brouhaha (nukes for mangoes)

[realFedUp]

ya can't make this stuff up....

Another covert deal, sans brouhaha

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1641453,001302100000.htm

Rukhmini Punoose

Hyderabad, March 4, 2006

When President Bush announced on Friday that Americans would soon be eating India’s famed mangoes, he failed to explain why.

Alongside the more flaunted nuclear deal, the US and India have also fleshed out another, more covert deal. That of a 1000-crore project called the Indo-US Knowledge Initiative in Agricultural Research and Education.

The project, touted by Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the “second green revolution”, was informally launched this morning when the President visited Hyderabad’s Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University, where he time in the various research labs including the pesticide and biochemical labs.

While both administrations have been extremely tight lipped about this deal, the seeds of the project were sown in July last when the PM visited the US. It was decided then to create a body that would identify collaborative scientific research, development and commercialization, promote emerging technologies and energize trade links between the two nations over a three-year period. The board will comprise eight members from each country, representing academia, government and the private sector.

The university Bush visited, is famed for growing 302 different varieties of seeds and is recognized as pioneers in new rice growing and sustaining technologies. They have single-handedly pushed Andhra Pradesh to the forefront of seed growth and research in India.


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[MadMaddie]

1. And he cuts funding to American companies and gov

organizations doing the same thing in America.

He is selling out America for his legacy!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Do you all get the feeling there's going to be a backlash to India

because there's going to be a backlash to Bush?

[MadMaddie]

3. Oh yea...especially with the Nuke deal....

Aren't India and Pakistan enemies? Isn't Pakistans Musharif supposedly on our side...this is a slap in his face by *.

I also wonder did * make this decison without consulting the military and National Security people?
I get the feeling he didn't....

[WhiteTara]

4. he's selling America for his personal

wealth. He could care less about history...never read it, who could care, he'll be dead, etc. Follow the money.