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Tucuday, Nov. 4
7:30 p.m. —Agri-Scrvicc Dairy
Animal Health Clinic, Farm
and Home Center.
7:30 pm. Ephrala
Farmer Meeting,
Room.
Wednesday, Nov. 5
900 am. Started Pullet Sym
posium, Farm and Home
Center.
4:30 p.m. Vo-Ag Teachers
meet, Solanco High School.
8:00 p.m. 4-H Baby Beef and
Lamb Club meets, Farm and
Home Center.
8:00 pm. Lancaster County
Soil and Water Directors
meet, Production Credit
Building.
Thursday, Nov. 6
12:00 Noon Farm Credit As
sociation meeting, Plain and Friday, Nov. 7
Fancy Farm, Bird-in-Hand. 1:30 pm— Dairy Da> Plann
ing Committee meets, Farm
1:30 pm. Lancaster County and Home Cen ter.
Extension Board meets,
Farm and Home Center. Saturday, Nov. 8
8:00 pm. Lancaster County 8-15 Pennsylvania Livestock
Poultry Directors meet, Exposition, Farm Show
Farm and Home Center. Building, Harrisburg.
8:00 p.m. Lancaster County 7:00 am— Lancaster County
Council Leaders meet, Farm 4-H Council Sub Sale, Farm
and Home Center. and Home Center.
Lancastcr Farming, Saturday. November 1,1969—1
World Food Problem
Young
Vo-Ag
One-half the people in the
world are hungry or mal
nourished. Yet there is no real
food shortage, except in a few
isolated areas, according to Dr.
Frank Ellis, Director, Food for
Freedom Services, Agency for
International Development.
He told delegates from 10
countries at the Bth Internation
al Agricultural Students Con
ference at the University of
Delaware, recently, the real
shortage is money to pay for
available food. “Income levels
are so low in developing coun-
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tries that millions of people
can't buy food.”
This is the problem the world
faces today. Foreign aid to less
developed countries must reach
the cause of their problems, said
Ellis. "Even if malnutrition
could be solved simply by food
donations, it shouldn’t be. It’s
more important to help people
help themselves.”
The “green revolution” the
recent rapid increase in food
production in many underdeve
loped countries around the
world proves the importance
of self help. Even farmers who
traditionally use the more pri
mitive farming methods will
quickly change to more modern
methods if they have an ade
quate reason.
Give a farmer a market an
opportunity to operate as an
economic man and he’ll
change, according to Ellis. For
instance, people claimed Indian
farmers would never change
their methods, but with an as
sured market they changed so
quickly fertilizer became a
black market item.
But there is still a very real
problem of hunger today, Ellis
said. “And tht real challenge of
the next 20 years is to determine
whether mankind has reached
that stage where food matches
mouths Particularly if the popu
lation increases to the predicted
level of seven billion by the
year 2000.”
The United States pioneered
in offering economic assistance
or foreign aid to less foitunate
countries But we rank ninth
now in relation to our Gross Na
tional Product Ellis stated.
Economic assistance from the
United States includes food it
self with more than three-four
ths of that food for sale to coun
tries at low interest rates. Non
food material such as fertilizer,
pesticides or transportation or
irrigation equipment that will
increase food production or as
sist in marketing are included.
Exporting know-how or techni
cal assistantce also plays an im
portant role
'Foreign aid increases future
prospects for this country to live
in peace and with continued pro
gress, Ellis said “How could we
hope foi peace if one-half the
world continued to go hungry,”
he concluded.
Edward Givens, assistant gen
eral manager, Southern States
Cooperative, emphasized that
more attention must be paid to
world agriculture problems, un
til and unless they are taken
care of, few other problems can
really be solved
Although the farmer is the ag
riculture industry’s keystone,
this industry also includes sup
pliers and marketers All three
segments must be efficient and
well coordinated. “That i equip
ment is a challenge to colleges to
educate young people in all phas
es of agricultural industry.”
Great concern was expressed
at the conference about the dan
gers of pesticide use and, on
the opposite side of the fence
on the dangers of not using pes
ticides.
The statement has been made
by USDA researchers that in 10
years biological or natmal pest
conti ol methods will have re
placed chemical controls in deve
loped countnes According to Dr.
A C Sucsy, export sales manag
er Rohm & Haas Co , biological
control is a step in the right di
rection Jsut he said, we face the
challenge of world food produc
tion In meet needs of a growing
pop,ui?tion In many countries
most undeveloped countiies, at
least _ it would be unwise to
concentiate solely on biological
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