regional wheat scientists in wheat improvement. FAO agreed to locate candidates for training, Borlaug offered to provide training in Mexico, and the Rockefeller Foundation agreed to put up the funds for this activity. The first group of promising young researchers arrived for training in 1961. There was one Pakistani in the first group, Manzoor A. Bajwa, next year another, Muhammed Nur, and in 1963, two more. These young Pakistani researchers spent nine months in Mexico working alongside Borlaug and the Mexican-Rockefeller research team. The trainees were exposed to new and practical methods for improving wheat production, and all went home carrying packets of seed and the knowledge on how to use it to best advantage.