SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 24-799 OCTOBER 17 AND 18, 1973 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1974 SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, MARKETING, and WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky, Chairman GEORGE MCGOVERN, South Dakota MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota JESSE HELMS, North Carolina SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL POLICY HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota, Chairman HENRY BELLMON, Oklahoma GEORGE MCGOVERN, South Dakota EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska (II) KF26 CONTENTS Bell, Richard E., Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, U.S. Department of Agriculture___ Borlaug, Dr. Norman E., International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, Mexico City, Mexico_--- Brown, Dr. Lester, Overseas Development Council__. Bryson, Dr. Reid, director, Environmental Institute, University of Burdick, Hon. Quentin N., a U.S. Senator from the State of North Diercks, H. Robert, vice chairman of the board, Cargill, Inc_-_. Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a U.S. Senator from the State of Min- Johnson, Dr. Gale, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 61 119 168 8 5 Katz, Hon. Julius L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- 188 Mayer, Dr. Jean, Professor of Nutrition and Master of Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass---- Middents, Melvin, division vice president, Commodity Marketing Divi- 155 Paarlberg, Dr. Don, drector, Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department 32 Paddock, Dr. William C., Consultant in Agricultural Development--- Prosterman, Prof. Roy L., University of Washington School of Law, U.S. AND WORLD FOOD SITUATION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1973 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, MARKETING, AND STABILIZATION OF PRICES AND SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:08 a.m., in room 1318, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey [chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy] presiding. Present: Senators Humphrey and Huddleston. STATEMENT OF HON. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF MINNESOTA Senator HUMPHREY. We will call the meeting to order. This is a meeting of the Subcommitee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices and the Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. My colleague today, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices is Senator Huddleston of Kentucky, and I am privileged to serve as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy. We have as our first witness a very distinguished scientist and one who has brought great fame and honor, both to his country and to himself, Dr. Norman E. Borlaug, Nobel Laureate in the area of food and nutrition, presently director of the International Center for Maize and Wheat, Mexico. Those of us in the Midwest lay claim to him and we are very honored to have him with us. Both Senator Huddleston and myself will have a brief introductory statement, Dr. Borlaug, and then we will ask you to share with us. your observations of many years experience in world food problems. It does not take an agricultural economist to figure out that the world food production system is in serious trouble. Mass starvation and malnutrition in Africa and Asia, and drastic food price rises throughout the world, underline the severity of the current world food crisis. This threat to the fate of millions takes on the proportions of the terror of plague and pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the Middle Ages. (1) |