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Overseas Research Relating to Animal Production under Public Law 480¹

U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Abstract

More than a decade has passed since the U.S.D.A. launched its program of foreign research under the provisions of Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954.

This research has profited both our country and the regions where the work was done. It has contributed much to world knowledge about agriculture, and in the field of animal production its yields have been solid and substantial.

Since 1958, our Department has made more than 1,100 research grants—worth some $70 million—to institutions in 31 countries on every continent except North America.

The sale of United States' farm products to friendly countries abroad provides funds for these grants. Payments are in local currency and cannot be converted into dollars, but part may be used in the purchasing countries for programs of interest to the United States.

This research is a relatively minor use of P.L. 480 or Food for Freedom money. Although sales to some countries have generated vast amounts of currencies, Congress has specified that Government agencies may use these currencies only as appropriated by regular procedure. Our Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has a Special Foreign Currency Program in its budget that handles such funds for all the Department's P.L. 480 research. Each year, we have to go up on Capitol Hill and ask Congress for these appropriations, just as we do for domestic research funds.

¹ Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, August 3 to 7, 1969, as part of a Symposium on International Programs for the Improvement of Animal Production.

² Director of Science and Education, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. 20250.