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

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

Growing up ____ after the 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: work for Cambridge University or for the International Institute of ____ Agriculture in Nigeria.

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

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

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

Dr. Hahn wanted to rescue Nigerians ____ hunger.

So, he persuaded his ____ and moved to Nigeria.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He immediately flew to Brazil to study the original ____.

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

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

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

He started ____ this plant with the Brazilian cassava.

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

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

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

Local ____ would not listen to a foreigner.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks to the new cassava, fewer people were ____.

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

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

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

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

Soon, other African countries asked for his ____.

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

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

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

Dr. Hahn once said, “If you have faith that what ____ 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 the ____ thing.”