A32-iMCMter Fanning, Saturday, Dacanbar 15,1984
Md. ag has
ties with Brazil
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The
University of Maryland at College
Park is acquiring a network of
formal agreements for cooperation
with public institutions of higher
education around the world.
These agreements call for an
exchange of scholars and research
workers in specific subject areas.
The subject areas vary according
to the needs identified and the
expertise available at each in
stitution.
In nearly every case, agriculture
is one of the major interests,
reports Dr. John R. Moore,
assistant provost for international
programs in the Division of
Agricultural and Life Sciences.
As an example, Dr. Moore cites
an agreement signed this year with
the Federal Rural University of
Rio de Janeiro, located in the
Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.
Rio has been designated as a sister
state of Maryland under the
Partners of the Americas linkage
program.
Signed last March, the
agreement involves joint research
projects on fish diseases and
agricultural by products. Ex
tension teaching projects in
agricultural education and home
economics will become a reality
next year. An integrated pest
management control project in
volving plant protection and
apiculture (beekeeping) also is
planned.
Dr. Moore foresees joint projects
in animal health, remote sensing of
forests and farmlands, plant
propagation, and animal science -
including poultry.
Several non-agricultural
projects involving two other public
universities in Rio de Janeiro also
have been proposed. The two
additional universities officially
were included in the agreement
when University of Maryland
administrators visited Brazil in
August under auspices of the
Partners of the Americas’
university linkage program.
Specified among the non
agricultural projects will be
coastal surveys and a study of
contamination in Brazil’s tidal
bays and rivers.
Ten years ago, the University of
Maryland signed an exchange
agreement with its counterpart in
Sri Lanka, an island nation off the
coast of India. That document has
formed the basis for similar
agreements in more recent years
with four institutions of higher
education in China, six in Egypt,
and the three in Brazil.
In addition, Maryland signed an
exchange agreement in November
1961 with the Asian Vegetable
Research and Development
Center, headquartered on the
island of Taiwan. The Center is
partially funded by the Agency for
International Development in the
U.S. Department of State.
In October, the University of
Maryland was designated as the
lead campus for a consortium of 34
academic and research
organizations providing technical
assistance to small famiers in the
West Indies under a $2 million
Caribbean grant from US AID.
Dairymen honor director
OXFORD Members of Inter-
State Milk Producers Co-Operative
District 11 held a retirement drop
in to honor Horace L. Prange,
Cochranville, who retired from
Inter-State Board of Directors
after fourteen years of service.
Newly elected director, Lee
Brown, Oxford, served as master
of ceremonies when many fellow
dairymen and fellow directors
expressed gratitude and ap
preciation to Horace for his
faithfulness and service to the
dairy industry.
He and his wife Laura own and
operate a farm of 120 acres with a
herd of 50 Holsteins in Upper
Oxford Township, Chester County.
They are the parents of one son and
two daughters, who were both
former dairy princesses in Chester
county.
Horace also serves on other local
cooperatives. He is committeeman
for Agway, Inc., and for the dairy
committee for State Grange.
The Pranges were presented a
HARRISBURG - Sen. Edward
W. Helfrick, R-27, has been
renamed to serve as chairman of
the Senate Agriculture and Rural
Affairs Committee. He will be
responsible for a committee that
plays a key role in dealing with
legislation that affects the largest
industry in the state.
“I can think of no one in the
Senate who is more able to serve as
chairman of this most important
committee,” said Sen. Robert C.
Jubelirer in announcing com
mittee chairmanship assignments.
“Since he assumed this role after
being elected to the Senate in 1980,
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Horace L. Prange, left, retiring Inter-State Director of
District 11, receives a plaque from newly elected director Lee
Brown.
wooden plaque shaped like a milk decorated with the Inter-State
can decorated with Holstein cows, emblem, was made by Nancy
Also a cake, designed and" YamallGray, Oxford.
Helfrick returns
Senate Ag chairman
Senator Helfrick has served with
the kind of dedication that clearly
shows his concern for the health
and future of farming and rural life
in Pennsylvania.”
Helfrick, a former dairy farmer
from Northumberland County,
sponsored many measures aimed
at preserving the family farm and
the efforts of the agricultural
community in Pennsylvania.
“Agribusiness is the state’s top
industry,” Helfrick noted. “It is an
industry in transition. And, it is an
industry that is constantly
threatened by skyrocketing costs.
“The family farm, the very
Heart of what built this state and
put it among the nation’s top
agricultural states, is seriously
threatened as well. These concerns
are what we take into a new
legislative session.”
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“I accept this committee
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