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Pages 45-53

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From page 45...
... If you have this, people will respond. If the government says we must produce 2.5 billion bushels of wheat next year, and we will put 500 million bushels in an international emergency program, and we are going to buy it from you, Mr.
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From page 46...
... QUESTION: Senator Humphrey mentioned the need for a food information system to help predict the supply of food crops. Is there any ready and easily understandable information available that shows for each country and population the amount they raise domestically, the amount they usually import, and how this has varied over time?
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From page 47...
... We need a system that alerts us to a short supply situation without putting on export controls. Unless we plan and prepare accordingly, we will have some serious political repercussions at home, such as a tremendous backlash against rural America.
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From page 48...
... The developing countries do not have that much time to make this transition, and I am not sure that the historical experience of the western world is applicable to the developing world today. That is why the effort to increase food production must be accompanied by a strong program to limit the population growth rate.
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From page 49...
... These countries, except for Japan, were all considered lowincome or underdeveloped countries ten or fifteen years ago. I want to re-emphasize the point that the measures needed to get participation of the poor and bring birth rates down over time must cope in the short and intermediate term with an accelerated rate of growth in demand for food.
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From page 50...
... Cultural hangups that impede rural development often exist also within the Western-educated middle classes in developing countries who have great difficulty understanding how their own farmers think and operate. They have great difficulty, therefore, building suitable institutions to bring technology, information, and physical inputs to their farmers.
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From page 51...
... We have been testifying about the need for a council on science and technology at the presidential level. The nearest thing to it today is the President's Science Advisor, who is also the head of the National Science Foundation.
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From page 52...
... An active engineering process is a constantly correcting process. It is an extremely important process to bring into the world food situation, along with other disciplines, not as a panacea but as a dynamic and controlling factor.
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From page 53...
... Wade Blackman in the Science and Technology Policy Office of the National Science Foundation.
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