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J. Anim Sci. 1969. 29:263-267.
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Education and Opportunities in Animal and Dairy Science Career Opportunities—Foreign

William S. Lefes1

Agency for International Development, Washington, D. C.

Abstract

AMONG the world's best potential sources of protein, livestock and livestock products are outstanding in quality and desirability. It is ironic that progress in economic development of this potential has been very slow, particularly where the need is most pressing. Furthermore, U. S. assistance in livestock development to less developed countries is substantially less than our advanced technology would normally dictate. It would indeed be unfair to place the burden of reproof for this shortcoming on the U. S. government or its private agriculturally oriented institutions. The real problems are found inherent in the syndrome of underdevelopment, particularly as they affect the livestock sector. Discovery of the proper mix of technological changes available and acceptable to farmers who are bound by traditional agriculture is the quest of modern technical assistance experts. Ranchers and nomads, unlike their sedentary brethren who fill the soil, often add a new dimension to their problems, that of perpetual mobility. This compounds and sometimes counters action programs for disease control and herd improvement for which ranchers and nomads are supposed to be the benefactors.

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1 Program Analyst, Africa Bureau, Agency for International Development, Washington, D. C. The author worked in Somalia and East Africa for 7 years prior to his present assignment in Washington.






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