—Lancastar Farming, Saturday, Dec 27. 1975
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Ag sponsors needed
AKRON, PA. - Farms and
agricultural business firms
are being sought to sponsor
35 Polish agriculturists when
they arrive in this country In
March, 1976. These young
men and women - all bet
ween the ages of 22 and 30 -
are part of the Mennonile
Central Committee (MCC)
Exchange Visitor Program
for Polish Agriculturists.
The Polish exchange
program was begun in 1971,
according to Doreen Harms,
the MCC coordinator in
charge of the project. “Next
year’s group will be the sixth
since the program started,”
Miss Harms said. “I think
it's helped build a tremen
dous amount of goodwill
between individuals in our
country and young people in
Poland.”
“The Polish visitors get a
chance to work here in
agriculture, they get a
chance to live with American
families and to see our
country. Their American
sponsors, on the other hand,
learn about Polish customs
and culture, and they get
highly qualified people
willing to work for the legal
minimum wage.”
The program has earned
the praise of many
agricultural leaders in its
five years of existence. For
example, Don Parke,
Executive Vice President of
PennAg Industries
Association, Ephrata, Pa.,
noted that his organization’s
Board of Directors had
decided to help publicize the
program to PennAg member
firms as well as to the
agricultural community at
large. PennAg is a trade
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Mias Harms said they are
always on the lookout for
agribusiness sponsors as
well as good farming
operations. “Our visitors
come to us with excellent
qualifications, and their
backgrounds, education and
work experience cover the
whole gamut of agricultural
technology,” she noted.
The MCC conducts the
program under a
cooperative agreement with
Poland’s Scientific
Technical Institute for
Agriculturists (SITR). The
SITE nominates the visitors,
all of whom have bac
calaureate of master’s
degrees. Some have PhD’s,
and nearly all have spent
some time working in their
specialties. Exchange
visitors have included
specialists with training in
animal science, agronomy,
horticulture, icthyology,
agricultural engineering,
mechanical engineering and
veterinary medicine to name
just a few disciplines.
During their year in the
U.S., visitors ordinarily stay
six months with one sponsor
and six months with a
second. While they may have
held very responsible
positions in their homeland,
the Polish visitors come here
expecting to spend a full
year as ordinary laborers.
The brevity of their stay
makes it impractical for
them to assume important
decision making roles. And,
while ail of them have been
schooled in English,
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The Ag Day Foundation
has been established to fund
Agriculture Day - the
nationwide effort that
promotes better un
derstanding between rural
and urban Americans •
according to A. J. Adolfl,
President of the National
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The American Ag Day
language can often be a
problem.
Many of the Polish visitors
work as farmhands. Of the 34
who came over in March,
1975, 22 were working on
farms as their year was
coming to a close. Of the
remaining 12, the largest
single group was composed
of those working in
greenhouses. Two exchange
visitors had jobs as helpers
on ag research teams at
Cornell and Purdue.
Exchange visitors are paid
the minimum hourly wage
by their sponsors. Sponsors
are expected to furnish
room, board and shelter, and
they withhold an agreed
upon amount from the
visitors’ wages to pay for
these necessities. There is no
other cost to the sponsors.
They are expected to serve,
though, as bridges for their
visitors to church and
community activities as well
as points of interest.
Although the Mennonite
Central Committee operates
the program, Miss Harms
said that sponsors of all
faiths are more than
welcome. For more details
on sponsoring an exchange
visitor, write to Doreen
Harms, Mennonite Central
Committee, 21 South 12th St.,
Akron, Pa. 17501 6r call 717-
859-1151.
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