Syed Hedayetullah (1904 – 29 August 1973) is considered a main architect of agriculture in Bangladesh, was a founding fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, founder principal of Agriculture College, Dhaka (1944–49), and Director of Agriculture, Government of East Pakistan (1949–56) and member of the founding committee of the Botanical Society of Bengal (1935). He is credited with establishing modern Bangladeshi agriculture and food self-sufficiency, having developed 60 superior strains of rice.
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1904 Bogra District, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh)
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29 August 1973 (aged 69) Dhaka, Bangladesh
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