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...impoverished farmers-a field that Mexico's 114 other commercial banks are usually reluctant to plow. "Agriculture credit is a good operation if you study the farmer," says Managing Director Fernando Gonzalez. He insists that his bankers not only advise farmers what to grow, but also what seed and fertilizer to use. Director Gonzalez is known affectionately in banking circles as "un viejo lobo banquero"-an old banking wolf -but he is one wolf that Mexico's farmers are glad to see at the door...
...need to raise agricultural yields through modern methods. The U.S.'s Ford Foundation and the Agency for International Development (AID) have begun pilot programs designed to teach farmers better techniques. These programs have increased production dramatically in several small areas, chiefly through the use of fertilizer, improved seed, pesticides, credit and better implements. But it will be years before such programs can have national impact in a country that doggedly resists change. Meanwhile, Delhi leans heavily on purchases of surplus wheat from the U.S., which under the Public Law 480 program, has averaged 300,000 tons per month since...
...long, denuded the coasts of Europe and the U.S. by ripping up the oyster beds. It was touch and go whether the oyster would survive at all, until an inspired French marine biologist, Victor Coste, discovered in the mid-1800s the secret of collecting larvae and raising seed, making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success of the process depends on what the French call tromper I'huître ("fooling...
Giving good colleges seed money is the aim of the Ford Foundation's Special Program in Education. Since the program began, four years ago, 42 rigorously selected small, private liberal arts colleges and nine major private universities have received grants totaling $164,200,000, and have raised additional matching funds of $401,400,000. Last week the foundation added 20 more schools to its list of beneficiaries...
...holds the deed to a decrepit ranch left to Dullea by his late father, though Dullea can't claim it until he simmers down some. One morning Ebsen strides out of the privy with a Monky Ward order book and begins thumbing through the catalogued commodities: wagons, wheat seed, whitewash . . . wives! Off he goes to Kansas City to fetch home for Dullea a scrubbed young widow and her small...