—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May i 5, 1976
Brazilian
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in Brazil, and she gratefully
accepted an invitation to join
the Americans at dinner.
Happily, Ruth said, he was
able to contact her parents
when he returned and let
them know that he had met
Maritta.
During the course of the
trip, Ruth covered ap
proximately 25,000 miles and
visited many more places
than mentioned here. He
visited Parana, once the
greatest coffee state in
Brazil, but which is now
producing mostly soybeans
since it was hit by the much
publicized freeze last year. A
cotton co-op in Itapaje, about
130 miles outside of For
telaza, turned out to be one of
the best he visited, Ruth
said. “Not the largest, but
the best. I mean that they
served the people well. It
was so clean you could eat
off the floor ... they were
doing preventive main
tenance on the machinery
... the atmosphere was just
different.” Ihe area was
also supposed to be the best
county in Brazil for
producing bananas, but Ruth
added that “it was so steep
you wondered how they ever
got the bananas down.” It
turned out that donkeys are
still used to haul down the
fruit.
In reflection, Ruth com
mented that “you think of
Brazil as being a very back
ward country.” It is true, he
pointed out, that 80 percent
of the people in northeastern
Brazil are illiterate, but in
traveling through the
country he found that Brazil
“has some of the most
skillful people and they are
so enthusiastic. They just do
not have enough of them.”
A very important aspect of
Ruth’s mission involved
filing a report with Partners
when he returned to the
States which would include
any recommendations he
might have as to how the
United States might help
improve the Brazilian
cooperative efforts. As he
saw it, one of the biggest
problems rests in the fact
that rich farmers who “draw
a salary and are well dressed
and drive new cars” are
really running the co-ops
without the know-how to do
the job. Even when they do
hire someone with
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don’t really trust him and
interfere with his work, he
said. Ruth has suggested
that the universities in Brazil
be contacted and then “they
could reach out and locate
people to come to the United
States to take part in a
working seminar in our
cooperatives
maybe
Lehigh for three weeks, then
Agway for three weeks, and
then Interstate and so on to
other Pennsylvania co-ops.”
He observed that he felt
bringing the Brazilians over
here to learn would be more
effective than sending more
people to Brazil to instruct
them there. He pomted out
that “they send their people
here to leam busmess ad
ministration and they are
very adaptable. They are
smart enough that they know
what they can use and what
they can’t use.” The
language barrier makes it
very difficult for us to go
over and teach them there,
he said, and although he
would recommend a basic
course in English for anyone
commg over to leam, he
pointed out that we have the
facilities right here to
demonstrate procedure.
“We couldn’t tell them how it
would work but we could
show them.”
After receiving his
recommendations, Partners
contacted Ruth and asked if
he would contact cooperative
leaders for a discussion
meeting to determine
whether or not they would
support such a program, and
a preliminary meeting was
scheduled for 12 cooperative
leaders to meet with Dick
Fletcher, director for
Agriculture and Rural
Development with Partners
of the Americas at the Hunt
Valley Inn in Cockeysville on
May 7.
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Two Schuylkill County 4-H
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the Pocono Environmental
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Dingman’s Ferry, Penn
sylvania. The Forum is an
annual event designed to
provide ideas on leadership,
techniques, new 4-H projects
and events, and also to
stimulate discussion and
creative thinking about 4-H
leadership.
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with a workshop on effective
communication presented by
Jane Said of the Schuylkill
County Council on
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
Ms. Said explained various
listening skills and their
place in effective human
relationships. The par
ticipants had the opportunity
to practice the skills
presented.
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