Penn State picked for Zimbabwe project
EAST LANSING, Mich. -
Michigan State and Penn State
have been selected to conduct a
$4.9 million five-year project to
assist the University of Zimbabwe
in expanding and improving its
agricultural programs.
The project, funded by the
United States Agency for In
ternational Development, will
provide assistance to the Faculty
of Agriculture at the University of
Zimbabwe.
The two universities were
selected for the program by the
United States Agency for In
ternational Development, the
University of Zimbabwe and the
government of Zimbabwe. MSU is
the prime contractor and Penn
State a subcontractor.
LaMarr Kopp, deputy vice
president for international
programs at Penn State, indicated
that the high quality of the faculty
interested in working with Zim
babwean colleagues was a major
reason the MSU-Penn State con
sortium was chosen.
The MSU Institute of In
ternational Agriculture will
provide the overall leadership for
the project. The Institute is an
integral unit of the College of
Agriculture and Natural
Resources and the Office of In
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Kim A. Wilson, assistant director
of the institute and associate
professor of animal science, will be
program director.
Kirkpatrick Lawton, MSU
professor of crop and soil sciences,
will be the project team leader in
Zimbabwe.
Coordinating the program for
-Penn State will be J. Dean Jan
sma, interim assistant dean and
director of International
Agricultural Programs.
“Since its independence in 1980,
Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia)
has sought vigorously to
strengthen its institutions in all
sectors," says Wilson. “Clearly,
education at all levels is central to
effective development. ’ ’
He adds that the University of
Zimbabwe has a central role in
national devlopment and it is the
only institution in that country
which offers degree training at the
undergraduate, masters and
doctoral levels.
The assistance program, Wilson
explains, is designed to strengthen
the Faculty of Agriculture at the
University of Zimbabwe with
higher enrollments, new course
offerings, additional facilities and
equipment and a larger and better
trained faculty.
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pointment of 12 long-term
specialists to the University of
Zimbabwe faculty in the areas of
soil sciences, food microbiology,
biometrics/ statistics, hor
ticulture, animal science and
agricultural economics. There will
also be short-term specialists in
various fields of agriculture. Ten
short-term exchange visits are
planned for Zimbabwe faculty to
visit international research cen
ters and travel to the United States
and other countries. Also, 20
Zimbabwean faculty members will
undertake graduate programs
leading to their master’s degrees.
Wilson says the relationship
between MSU and Penn State and
Zimbabwe dates back almost two
decades. The two U.S. universities
and Zimbabwe over those years
have cooperated in professional
exchanges, and their efforts have
been expanded greatly in the past
four years.”
“This has strengthened our
knowledge of and major com
mitment to Zimbabwean
development, a commitment
demonstrated by the presidents,
deans, department heads and
toher hgih officials at both
universities,” says Wilson. “This
commitment has been
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strengthened by a core group of
African scholars at each univer
sity.”
“Although each of the American
universities has the interest,
capability and experience for
implementing this project, I
believe that our joint efforts will
provide a broader resource base
for providing the assistance
needed by the University of
Zimbabwe in this project,” Penn
State President Bryce Jordan
wrote in a letter to Cecil Mackey,
president of MSU.
Samuel Smith, dean of the
College of Agriculture at Penn
State, says his faculty members
are enthusiastic about the op
portunity to work with the
agriculture faculty at the
University of Zimbabwe and the
nation’s Ministry of Agriculture on
such a challenging program.
Cooperative activities through
MSU’s African Studies Center and
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Penn State’s international
programs offices have involved
scholars and students working in
Zimbabwe and the United States in
such areas as agriculture, human
medicine, veterinary medicine,
social sciences, business and
engineering. Also, programs for
exchange of scholarly documents
and cooperative research have
been developed through the
African Studies Center at MSU.
Zimbabwe gained its inde
pendence from England, April
18,1980. It has a population of more
than 7.6 million and a land area
about equal to the state of Mon
tana. About 80 percent of the
population relies on fanning in
some way for its livelihood. Its
agriculture is diverse including
tobacco, com, wheat, cotton, sugar
cane, soybeans, sorghum, ground
nuts, fruits, vegetables, dairy and
beef cattle, swine, goats, sheep and
poultry.
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March averaged 720,000 head,
down 17,000 head from a year ago.
Milk production per cow averaged
1,085 pounds in March, up 10
pounds per cow from a year ago.
Grain and other concentrates fed
to milk cows in the Commonwealth
on April 1, 1984 averaged 15.1
pounds per head, up 0.4 pound from
the previous year. The value of
grain and other concentrates fed to
milk cows averaged $9.15 per
hundredweight (cwt.) compared
with $B.OO per cwt in April of 1983.
Total U.S. milk production
during March totaled 11.7 billion
pounds, three percent less than
last year. The number of milk cows
averaged 10.9 million head, two
percent below a year earlier.
Production per cow averaged 1078
pounds, eight pounds less than a
year earlier.
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