Computer network can help
LINCOLN, Neb., A joint pilot puter network was put into
computer project of the U.S operation last week by the
Department of Agriculture and the' university-sponsored system
Adversity of Nebraska could lend called AGNET in cooperation with
extra punch to U.S. export ex- USDA’s Foreign Agricultural
pansion efforts, particularly foi Service, which provides the trade
value-added products, Secretary ot leads.
Agriculture John R. Block said last AGNET is an information
week. delivery network designed to be
Block said the pilot project in
which foreign agricultural trade
leads are sent to U.S. suppliers on
a University of Nebraska com
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USDA export drive
“Time can be crucial in the
highly-competitive agricultural
export business,” Block said.
“This new system could permit
same-day response by American
companies to requests for
agricultural products made by
foreign importers to U.S.
agricultural attaches and coun
selors throughout the world.
“The link with AGNET adds a
new dimension to the highly
successful FAS Trade Opportunity
Referral Service, or TORS,” Block
said. “For 10 years foreign trade
leads have been cabled to TORS by
our attaches and sent to the ap
propriate suppliers by com
puterized mail. Mailing takes time
up to six days for some
California exporters but even
with the delay, it has proven ef
fective. We were able to credit
more than $l5O million worth of
new export business last year
directly to TORS contacts.
“The new system, in which FAS
computers can put trade leads into
AGNET immediately after they
are received, should provide the
opportunity for a substantial in
crease m this business.
Block said the TORS mailing list
of trade leads would be continued
to companies that want them,
along with the weekly listing of
trade leads in USDA’s “Export
Briefs” report.
He credited state departments ol
agriculture with helping to build
the TORS list of U.S. agricultural
suppliers from a few hundred at
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He said foreign requests for U.S.
products through the system
average more than 55 per week.
“Most requests are for value
added products,” Block said.
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literally hundreds of food items
that create jobs as they are
transformed from raw materials
off the farm into consumer-ready
products.”
Block said U.S. exports of these
products totaled between $l2
billion and $l3 billion last year and
USDA is making a concerted effort
to expand this segment of U.S.
agricultural trade.
“Bulk commodities grams,
soybeans and cotton-will continue
to be our export mainstay,” he
said, “but the United States has the
most advanced food technology in
the world, and we should take
advantage of that in the world
market.”
He said the trade lead project is
another step in the USDA drive to
improve its global information
gathering, analysis and tran
smission system in support of
export expansion. Block said work
is underway, using State Depart
ment satellite telecom
munications, to link all overseas
agricultural attache posts with
Washington by computer.
The pilot trade lead project with
AGNET will run for 90 days, after
which a decision will be made on
whether to make it permanent,
Block said.