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Bergland said the mcrease m food aid commitments is a step toward meeting the food needs of the hungry and a long stride toward the convention’s objective of a guaranteed level of at least 10 million tons of wheat and other grams for human consumption for use m the developmg countries. “That level was set by the World Food Conference and the World Food Council as the absolute minimum to reach a measure of food security m the poor coun tires,” Bergland said. “To provide it, we jom with the Food Aid Committee m encouraging other nations to become donors, especially the OPEC countries.” Bergland said legislation to establish a 4 million ton A.s wUh ii (j'O vlh iil jl* i\'i foil*".*, insluu tuns on t‘u I iht I k( (Jish i« d t )Jc m )1 k tlnii n )l Cht inn iK Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 10,1980—C23 U.S. food reserve to insure that this country can meet its food aid commitments is before the Congress. “I hope the signing of the new Food Aid Convention will speed the passage of this legislation so we can be sure of meetmg our commitments m any crop situation,” he said. Bergland said the com mitments under the Food Aid Convention are not aid targets but rather pledges by the donors that them annual food assistance will not drop below the level specified. The United States, for example, was committed to contributing a minimum of 1.89 million tons of gram under the 1971 convention, but actual shipments that met convention aid requirements have far ex ceeded that level, totalling about 5.3 million tons m fiscal year 1979. Food aid under the con vention may be supplied as gifts of gram or of cash with which to buy gram; as sales to the recipient country for non-convertible currency, or sales on credit for at least 20 years with a down payment of not over 15 percent and interest rates below Wildlife group opposes use of Compound 1080 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Wildlife Federation has taken a stand M —j/f tho lL>—' Cstovernon] •ncrgy rMouroocanttrt 458-8011 . P.O box 24, uwchland, p* 19450 P4QG PRODUCERS! * Get Top Price for J Your Hogs at ♦ New Holland Sold in sorted lots the auction way. See them weighed and sold and pick up your check. SALE EVERY MONDAY • 8:00 A.M. NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC. Phone 717-354-4341 + Daily market Report - Phone 717-354-7288 I ♦ Abe Diffenbach, Manager prevailing commercial rates in world markets. Members may contribute through international organizations or on a country-to-country basis. The Public Law 480 program is the channel for the U.S. contribution. The United States normally ships about 6 million tons of gram and gram products a year under PL 480, but not all of it is for human consumption and not all meets the con vention’s sales terms criteria. The convention, which was agreed to by the negotiators in March, is subject to ratification by governments of the member countries. Senate approval is required in the United States. It will become an element of the International Wheat Agreement of 1971, which last year was extended through June 30,1981. The extension came after negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new Wheat Trade Convention, the second element of the In ternational Wheat Agreement. The new food aid pact is scheduled to expire on that same date, but there is a provision for ex tending it. against Congressional passage of a bill that would legalize the use of a poison, Compound 1080, against coyotes and other livestock predators. In a letter to Rep. E. de la Garza, chairman of a House Agriculture subcommittee studying livestock losses, Thomas L. Kimball, executive vice president of the NWF, asked the com mittee to reject H.R. 6725, a so-called animal damage control bill. Since it was developed in 1944 to control coyotes, Kimball said, Compound 1080 has killed “many thousands” of dogs and animals other than coyotes, while the coyote “is flourishing”. Coyotes, Kimball argued, subsist mainly on rodents, rather than livestock. Coyote populations are greatest where there are large rodent populations, he added, and therefore elimination of the coyotes could be “disastrous to the other elements of the en vironment.”
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