149—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 19,1979
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IFAP meeting concentrates on farm prices
SORRENTO, Italy - Low
farm prices in every corner
of file world were the central
concern of farmers of more
than 40 nations who met here
April 23-27, at the 23rd
General Conference of the
International Federation of
Agricultural Producers
(IFAP). In a policy
statement adopted by the
delegates, it was noted that
in most countries prices
received by farmers lag
behind their rising costs,
while in the exporting
countries, form prices have
actually declined while costs
rose.
The 23rd General Con
ference closed with the,
election of Sir Henry Plumb,
former president of the
National Farmers Union of
England and Wales, as the
new president, succeeding
U.S.-NFU President Tony T.
Dechant, who had headed
IFAP since November, 1975.
Legislator calls
for TMI assistance
HARRISBURG - State
Representative Don Dorr, R?
York, in letters to United
States Congressman Bill
Goodling and Senators Dick
Schweiker and John Heinz,
has asked that the federal
government take steps to
spread the adverse
economic effects of the
Three Mile Island incident
as broadly as possible.
“Amendment of the Price-
Anderson Act would be one
avenue of assistance for
GPU ratepayers,” Dorr
said.
Dorr noted the coverage of
the Act is very restrictive.
“The federal indemnity
involved in the Act
amounting to some 500
million dollars could be used
to help pay for the cleanup of
Three Mile Island and the
additional energy purchases
which must be made by the
electrical suppliers as a
result of the damage to Unit
#2 and the inability to start
iq: Unit #l,” Dorr stated.
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Dechant was unable to
participate in the Sorrento
meeting because of his
hospitiUzation for surgery.
Elected as IFAP vice
presidents were M. Ghedira
of Tunisia, C.V. Pereda of
Argentina, and Peter
- “Another approach,” the
legislator added, “could be
the use of federal disaster
t relief funds for economic
* assistance by supplying
funds for cleanup and energy
purchases.”
“It is vital to prevent the
justified outrage which will
pour forth from the people in
this area if they are forced to
pay for this situation without
seeing indications of support
from other areas,” Dorr
said. “The people of this
area have already suffered
too much. Millions of
Americans will benefit by
the lesson learned from
Three Mile Island and im
proved safety standards
prompted by the incident.
This is adequate justification
for asking for their
assistance,” he claimed.
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Tony Dechant’s presidency ended
Bukman of the Netherlands.
As immediate past
president, Dechant will
continue to be a member of
the IFAP executive com
mittee.
The weakness of farm
commodity prices in world
trade was bliuned in part, in
the IFAP policy statement,
on the “slowdown overall
economic growth and em
ployment.”
lie effect of the world
wide economic slump “hits
hardest in the 'developing
countries which is where the
greatest need for food exists
and where the biggest in
crease in demand would
occur if the world economy
were growing _at a healthy
rate,” said the policy
document.
Noting that food output
continues to increase nearly
every year, the IFAP
statement observed that
“increasing employment in
the poor countries is
necessary in order to
prevent price-depressing
surplus from ac
cumulating.”
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The IFAP conference
strongly endorsed a family
farm structure of
agriculture and called on
governments to adopt
policies to “accord to far
mers compensation for their
labor, investment,
management services and
risks equal to the returns
accorded to comparable
resources .and services in
other sectors of the
economy.”
The
IFAP
statement
viewei
Round” of trade negotiations
-as favorable for agriculture
but stressed that immediate
benefits would be limited.
“Producers of grain in the
exporting countries received
no significant benefits from
the negotiations,” the IFAP
statement declared while
noting that agreements for
other major commodities
“will likely have limited
effect on trade flows,'’ since
most provisions relate to
minor processed and semi
processed products.
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National Farmers Union at and Douglas Caruso, general
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