Hallowell talks 6 We 9 re Growing Better 9 BY SHEILA MILLER HARRISBURG Last month Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell took the state’s logo “Penn sylvania Agriculture, We’re Growing Better” to the Republic of China and Japan. Leaving the Philadelphia airport on May 7, Hallowell flew to Taiwan on an ambassador’s mission to develop trade for the Keystone state’s agricultural products. The trip was sponsored by the Repubhc of China’s Economic Council and the American Institute in Taiwan financing the travel and lodging for two representatives from each state in the U.S. and coordinating the trade investment forum m Taipai. For ten days, Hallowed took part in trade sessions with various leaders of the Republic of China and toured some of the country’s ag industrial areas. On his return trip, he spent two days with Japanese officials seeking to open new avenues of commerce. Developing trade with these nations, especially exporting U.S. agricultural commodities is essential, Hallowed pointed out, to help equalize the current trade deficit with the U.S. buying more goods from these nations than it’s selling to them. “The U.S. and Taiwan are trading |l4 bidion in goods each year; however the U.S. is im porting $8 billion and only ex porting $6 bidion,” commented Hadowed. “Japan sells us radios and televisions that cost the U.S. $lO a pound; while we sed them gram that costs $.05 a pound.” , He pointed out the U.S. is the chief supplier of Taiwan’s agricultural imports. In 1980, the R.O.C. imported $1,341 midion worth of agricultural products from the U.S. which accounted for 43.4 percent of its total agricultural imports. The imports of soybeans, corn, wheat, barley, and sorghum from the U.S, added up to 4 million metric tons valued at $835 million, representing 82 percent of the total value of such imports. Other major agricultural im ports from the U.S. include cotton, cattle hides, tobacco, and fruits. Last year the Republic of China unported $230 million in cotton, $47 million in cattle hides, $53 million in tobacco, and $53 million in fruits. The R.O.C. exports some agricultural products to the U.S. to the tune of $195 million last year. Exports to the U.S. have been increasing since 1975 up 30 perdtnt, The major export items are canned mushrooms, preserved vegetables and fruits, and sea products. During his visit, Hadowed learned what the imported soybeans are used for in Taiwan making ‘milk’. “The Chinese take the grain soybeans and make a meal. This meal is made into an ‘apple-type milk’. They’d rather make their own ‘milk’ out' of soybeans than import our dried dairy milk because of cost. This milk sup plements the protein needed in their-diets,” explained Hadowed, who commented he tned it and. wasn’t wdd over the flavor. “It was too sweet it wasn’t as good as fresh milk,” commented the Bucks County dairyman. Even though the Chinese prefer to import their ‘milk’ in the form of soybeans, Hadowed expressed (Turn to Page A 37) Pennsylvania's Secretary of Agriculture Colonia Beef Co., Philadelphia, right; and Paul Penrose Hallowed, second from left, poses Bucher, head of S.E. Asia Dept, of Commerce, with William N. Morrell, president of USA-ROC during his recent trip to Taiwan and Japan to Economic Council, far right; Ron Davis, promote Pennsylvania ag trade. • MIXED FERTILIZER • AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS £A3 • ROYSTER BONANZA UMtVJiite if IferHhenl AND CROP SPECIALS MATERIALS FOR BLENDING OR DIRECT APPLICATION... 46% UREA (GRANULAR) 33Yz% AMMONIUM NITRATE 30% NITROGEN SOLUTION OIAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE 46% TRIPLE SUPERPHOSPHATE 60% MURIATE OF POTASH 20% GRANULAR ZINC 32% BORATE (GRANULAR) MICRONUTRIENT MIX 90% SULFUR (GRANULAR) R/K (Royster / Kirby) 500 Running Pump Rd., Lancaster, Pa. 17601 ★ WRITE OR CALL LANCASTER 717-299-2541 IN PA. 1-800-732-0398 OUTSIDE PA. 1-800-233-3833 To Serve You Better From Lancaster, PA... AGRI SERVICE Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20,1981—ASS LATE SEASON SPECIALS Bicep Balan LC Dual (30 gl) Dyanap Diazinon-Captan (Seed Treater) Disyston 8 LC Princep 4 L Prowl Ridomil Sutan 6.7 E Surflan Treflan Unite rn. Fertihersi
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