USDA focuses talents, money on top research needs
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nation’s agricultural science and
education system, a U.S. Depart
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predicted recently.
“To do a good job for our far
mers and consumers, we’ll have to
manage our resources with care,
and we’re taking steps to do just
that,” said Orville G. Bentley,
USDA assistant secretary for
science and education. “This will
meam streamlining operations
and some shifts in priorities.
We’ll simply have to focus our
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talents and money on the high increase of 2.6 percent to a total of
research and education needs.” $472 million. This would be enough,
Bentley, whose responsibilities said Bentley to carry out the
include four USDA agencies the agency’s research mission,
Agricultural Research Service, the providing the funds are managed
Cooperative binte Research and spent wisely.
Service, the Extension Service and Getting needed research done,
the National Agricultural Library Bentley said, is much more than
says the system will sustain its just spending a given amount of
basic functions despite tight money.
budgets. How the system is structured
There are some increases in the and managed, he said, can greatly
proposed 1984 budget, said Ben- enhance the productivity of
tley, although these will be more research. As one example of
than offset by rising costs. changes now being
In that budget, the Agricultural made, he said, the research
Research Service would get an agency already is redirecting $45
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This means that some scientific
talents, funds and other resources
are being shifted to new locations
around the country.
“Right now,” he said, “we are
focusing our priorities on research
projects which will help increase
plant and animal productivity,
allow us to expand our agricultural
products export markets and
conserve our natural resources.”
More details on upcoming
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What about the planned $4l-6
million cut in the existing $329
million bucket of the Extension
Service, which helps with informal
educational efforts of the land
grant universities in the states,
counties, cities, towns and rural
communities? -
“That cut will not directly affect
the traditional programs of ex
tension work,” said Bentley.
Rather, the planned reduction is in
funds targeted on special needs at
the regional or national level.”
Today’s high Technology, he
said, has radically changed the
world of science, making it
practical to perform basic
research and non-commercial
development work. When basic
research on a given project is
completed, he said, the benefits of
the research are made available to
the country’s farmers and con
sumers through extension
programs and the private sector.
Existing major programs of the
Cooperative State Research
Service would be maintained in the
proposed 1964 budget. However,
Bentley said, reductions are
proposed in special research
grants and targeted animal health
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