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International Symposium: Training of United States and Foreign Nationals for Leadership in Dairying in Developing Nations

Introduction

This is the sixth symposium in succession organized by the International Relations Committe of the American Dairy Science Association. These symposia have been arranged to promote better mutual understanding of educational and research problems, and the needs and opportunities, in the development of dairying throughout the world.

Your attention and mine has been focused, in recent years, on the fact that at no point in world history has there been a greater need for international agricultural development than at the present time. Next to peace, there is no problem of greater significance in the world than food supplies. The hope for the hungry half of the world is to produce most of the food, including milk and milk products, needed in their own countries. This requires trained people-technicians, teachers, scientists, farmers and leaders in all phases of agriculture and the food industries.

Further, increased food production requires adaptation of known agricultural technology, development of new knowledge through basic and applied research, dissemination of knowledge widely and effectively to farmers and agricultural industries, and leadership in industries to provide the production inputs, such as fertilizers, chemicals, and pesticides.