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CED-81-18 1 (1980-10-17)

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                   UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                           WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                RELEASED
COMMUNITY AND ErONOMIC
D[VD.OPMKNT OlVIlION                             OCTOBER 17, 1980

       B-199623


       The Honorable Donald W. Stewart                  Iii 11111111

       United States Senate                              113607

       Dear Senator Stewart:

            Subject: Agricultural Research and Extension
                      Programs To Aid Small Farmers (CED-81-18)

            This report is in response to your June 2, 1980, letter
       requesting certain information on agricultural research and
       extension programs to aid small farmers. Your letter re-
       ferred to our 1975 report entitled Some Problems Impeding
       Economic Improvement of Small-Farm Operations: What the
       Department of Agriculture Could Do (RED-76-2, Aug. 15,
       1975) and requested that we furnish you with updated infor-
       mation and respond to certain questions related to six spe-
       cific issues.

            We obtained updated information from the Science and
       Education Administration (SEA), Department of Agriculture
       (USDA), on both its in-house and related State, local, and
       private agricultural research and extension programs. Our
       work was performed at SEA headquarters in Washington, D.C.
       We discussed small-farm research and extension programs with
       SEA officials, including the SEA small-farm coordinating
       group. We also reviewed and analyzed secondary data, in-
       cluding various reports on small-farm programs. Our ob-
       jective was to provide you with information on small-farm
       research and extension programs in response to your spe-
       cific questions. We did not perform a detailed analysis
       of such programs or assess their quality.

            In addition to responding to your questions, this
       report provides certain background information on small-farm
       research and extension programs.





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