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SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION,
MARKETING, AND STABILIZATION OF PRICES

AND

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL POLICY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
UNITED STATES SENATE

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

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, MARKETING, and
STABILIZATION OF PRICES

WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky, Chairman

GEORGE MCGOVERN, South Dakota
JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota
DICK CLARK, Iowa

MILTON R. YOUNG, North Dakota
HENRY BELLMON, Oklahoma
ROBERT DOLE, Kansas

JESSE HELMS, North Carolina

SUBCOMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL POLICY

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota, Chairman

HENRY BELLMON, Oklahoma
JESSE HELMS, North Carolina
ROBERT DOLE, Kansas

GEORGE MCGOVERN, South Dakota
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, Kentucky
DICK CLARK, Iowa

EX-OFFICIO

MEMBERS

HERMAN E. TALMADGE, Georgia

CARL T. CURTIS, Nebraska

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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
Wisconsin, Madison, Wis_____

Burdick, Hon. Quentin N., a U.S. Senator from the State of North

Dakota

Diercks, H. Robert, vice chairman of the board, Cargill, Inc_-_.
Dole, Hon. Robert, a U.S. Senator from the State of Kansas___.
Huddleston, Hon. Walter D., a U.S. Senator from the State of Ken-
tucky

Humphrey, Hon. Hubert H., a U.S. Senator from the State of Min-

nesota

Johnson, Dr. Gale, Department of Economics, University of Chicago,

Chicago, Ill.

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Katz, Hon. Julius L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
national Resources and Food Policy-----

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Mayer, Dr. Jean, Professor of Nutrition and Master of Dudley House,

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass----

Middents, Melvin, division vice president, Commodity Marketing Divi-
sion, Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn___

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Paarlberg, Dr. Don, drector, Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department
of Agriculture_.

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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.

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