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There is a Korean man who became the chief of ____ Nigerian tribe for making huge contributions to Nigeria’s agriculture and economy. Here is his story.

Dr. Hahn is an agriculturist ____ specialized in plant breeding.

Growing up right after ____ Korean war, he knew what it was like to be hungry, and he wanted to help people in need.

In 1971, he was given two opportunities: ____ for Cambridge University or for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Nigeria.

On his way to Cambridge for a job interview, ____ first stopped in Nigeria.

There, he saw the country had been destroyed by a ____ war.

____ than 2 million people had died, and more than half a million people were starving.

Dr. ____ wanted to rescue Nigerians from hunger.

So, he ____ his family and moved to Nigeria.

When ____ Hahn got there, he learned that the staple food in Nigeria was a plant called cassava.

Unfortunately, cassava was ____ against viral and bacterial diseases, so it did not yield much crop.

Knowing this, he decided to develop stronger cassava varieties with ____ yields.

However, Dr. Hahn faced a ____ there was not much information available about cassava.

Cassava was rarely studied or developed ____ it was not a cash crop.

To make matters worse, he had never seen or eaten ____ before.

While studying African cassava, Dr. Hahn found ____ that the Europeans who colonized Brazil had first brought cassava into Africa.

He immediately ____ to Brazil to study the original cassava.

There, he learned about it and went back to Nigeria with Brazilian cassava ____

Then, Dr. Hahn ____ to every corner of Nigeria and collected different types of local cassava to see if they were good at fighting diseases, but they weren’t.

Fortunately, he found ____ plant that was similar to cassava but resistant to diseases.

He started crossing this ____ with the Brazilian cassava.

After five years of hard work, Dr. Hahn finally ____ in developing new varieties of cassava.

They yielded much more than the local ones and ____ survive diseases.

Another obstacle Dr. Hahn faced ____ distributing the new varieties.

Local farmers would ____ listen to a foreigner.

To overcome this problem, Dr. Hahn visited markets, churches, and schools and gave ____ the new varieties to Nigerian people for free.

He went from one house to the next to let farmers know the superiority of these ____ varieties.

Sometimes he planted them in the ____ of the cassava field without telling the farmers.

His colleagues were concerned that ____ farmers might be angry to find different cassava in their fields.

____ Dr. Hahn insisted that the farmers would think that it was a gift from God.

He was right. The farmers soon realized ____ superiority of the new varieties, and more and more farmers started to cultivate them.

Thanks to the new cassava, fewer ____ were starving.

In fact, they could even make more money by selling the ____ cassava.

____ Nigeria became the country that produced the greatest amount of cassava in the world.

In 1983, the Yoruba, a major tribe of Nigeria, honored Dr. ____ as a chief with the title “Seriki Agbe” or “the King of Farmers.”

In addition to cassava, ____ Hahn developed other major foods, including yam, sweet potato, and banana.

Soon, other African countries ____ for his help.

Dr. Hahn traveled to these ____ to teach local farmers and scholars how to grow these new varieties.

____ spent 23 years developing and distributing the new cassava varieties to the whole continent.

Although he left Nigeria ____ 1994, he is still remembered as one of the greatest scientists who fought against starvation in Africa.

Dr. ____ once said, “If you have faith that what you do will benefit humanity, I believe that you must sacrifice yourself.

Even if I were to go back to the past, I would still do ____ same thing.”