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Conclusions and Recommendations
Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 8-20
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Fully developed recommendations concerning institutional, economic, and social changes required to increase domestic production are not provided. There is an urgent need for establishing national goals and policies in food and nutrition research including an improved institutional framework for reporting, observing, and managing the wide range of U.S.
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We suggest that a National Agricultural Research Policy Council representing the many federal and state agencies responsible for agricultural and agriculturally related research be established. It should have responsibility for establishing national agricultural policies and goals.
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Interaction among those working in the basic scientific disciplines, U.S. agricultural research institutions, the international agricultural research centers, and programs in agriculturally developing countries should be encouraged in the grant program.
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Training is needed in basic research on the biological processes that control or limit crop, livestock, and fish productivity; on the biology and ecology of rhizobial technology and pest management; and on the biological and behavioral sciences that underlie human nutrition, food science and technology, environmental science, and waste management. Animal health scientists are critically few: -11
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The USDA-SAES complex has not adequately funded basic research relating to biological processes that control crop and livestock productivity and insure a greater stability of supply. Because of crop surpluses, political pressures from commodity groups, budgetary reductions, and emphasis on immediately applicable results, a formerly substantial basic research effort in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
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Expand research on photosynthesis so as, ultimately, to increase crop productivity through: (a) an increase in carbon dioxide assimilation by modulation of the flow of carbon during photosynthesis; (b)
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There is now an urgent need to establish research and extension teams in various climatic regions where efforts of microbiologists, plant breeders, geneticists, plant and microbial physiologists, plant nutritionists, biochemists, agronomists, and agricultural extension specialists can establish coordinated programs for developing and field demonstrating increased biological nitrogen fixation.
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Such a center would also train technologists for a nitrogen-fixing field training program and produce professionals in the genetics of nitrogen fixing microorganisms and general rhizobial microbiology. The current funding level of less than $5 million from all sources in this nation for research on biological nitrogen fixation is grossly inadequate.
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Improve technologies for abiotic nitrogen fixation as alternatives to the present reliance on natural gas for chemical fixation. Develop improved catalytic procedures with low energy requirements for production of fertilizer nitrogen.
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Specific Recommendation VI (See Chapter 12) Design a concerted program of research in pest control to improve existing techniques and develop innovations for crops and livestock and for food products.
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uses 12 to 15 percent of the total energy consumed nationally, of which only about 3 percent is used in the production phase. Opportunities exist for applying specific technological practices for reducing energy inputs into agricultural production while at the same time conserving land and water (by such means as no plowing, slow release fertilizers, or crop rotations)
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Increase production of domestic food animals, poultry, and fish by improving fertility and reducing disease. The food producing function of domestic animals is to convert to meat, milk, and eggs the nutrients from crops, forages, and by-products that do not have greater value in other uses.
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A major research effort is needed to improve forage yields, increase the nutritional value of forages, and increase the efficiency of forage use by animals. The total current research expenditure on forage crops, pastures, and rangelands is $30 million annually spent by publicly supported state and federal laboratories in the U.S.
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