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ID-77-6 1 (1977-07-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacmm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT EESUHE 02862 - [A19330011 Restrictions on Using More Fertilizer for Food Crops in Developing Countries. ID-77-6; B-159652. Jujy 5, 1977. 35 pp. I 11 appendices (30 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmei B. Staats, Comptroller Genral. Issue Area: Facilities and Material Management: Requirements for Equipment, Spare Parts and Supplies f702); Facilities and Material Management: Building, Buying, or Leasing Federal Faciliies and Equipment (706);International Economic and Military Programs: U.S. Development Assistance Overseas (603). Contact: Internation' Liv. Budget Function: Tternatifinal Affairs: Foreign Economic and Financial Assistance (151); In ernational Affair3: Conduct of Foreign Affairs (152); Agriculture (350). Organization Concerned: Agency 4ir international Develi.pmant; Department of Agricultuce; Depcrtment of State; Department of the Treasury. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on International Relations; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Congress. Authority: Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, sec. 103 (b). Developing countries could produce more food by using more fertilizer. Although steps nave been taken to produce more fertilizer, its use is often hindered by the individual countries' policies and institutional constraints. Findings/Conclusions: Farmers in many developing countries find it difficult to usc murc fertilizer due to such governmental policies as the maintenance of artificially low food prices tor urban popu!ations which discourage ftrmers from using high cost agricultural products. Fertilizer uz. should be considered along with other methods of increasing cxi. yield and as part of a needed effort to increase food crops in developing countries. Recommendations: The Secretaries of State, Agriculture, and the Treasury and the Administrator of the Agency fcr International Development should work for concerted action by all countries and institutions that provide fertilizer assistance to: (1) induce recipient governments to revise policies which act as constraints and to adopt a strategy to increase the use of fertilizer on food crops; and (2) incorporate, where appropriate, a requirement in new agreements with recipient countries for food, financial, and technical assistance that affirmative a(tion be taken by developing countries to remove constraints to greater agricultural production, including constraints to increasing the use of fertilizer. (Author/SCI

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