. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. fldBOffiffliursjs. Butz Sees Trade Growth in East Europe, Mideast Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz, recently returned frorri a trip to Eastern Europe and the Middle East, has predicted that growing demand for protein foods "will bring those countries increasingly into the market for feedstuffs produced on American farms. "Even in centrally planned econ- omies," the Secretary said, "govern- ments are responding to consumer demands for higher quality and greater variety in diets. In most cases, this will requ
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. fldBOffiffliursjs. Butz Sees Trade Growth in East Europe, Mideast Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz, recently returned frorri a trip to Eastern Europe and the Middle East, has predicted that growing demand for protein foods "will bring those countries increasingly into the market for feedstuffs produced on American farms. "Even in centrally planned econ- omies," the Secretary said, "govern- ments are responding to consumer demands for higher quality and greater variety in diets. In most cases, this will require increased imports of feedgrains and pro- ; Secretary Butz visited Iran, Israel, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hun- gary, and Poland. The visit to Poland resulted in a understanding on future grain trade between the two countries. "The Minister of Agriculture of Romania told me that 'y°u have something more powerful than the atomic bomb—soya.' Romania plans to double its production on livestock and poultry," the Secre- tary noted, "and cannot do it entirely with feedstuffs produced at home. "In Bucharest, I had a very good talk with President Ceausescu, who is quite directly and personally involved in the trade and develop- ment plans of his country. Romania is agricultural, with good basic resources. The Romanians are working very hard to improve their agriculture, and we are cooperating on the basis of the two protocols signed here last September for exchange of technical and econ- 14 omic information. Romanian agri- culture officials will come to Wash- ington in January to discuss further plans for this work. "In Poland, we signed an ex- change of letters in which Poland stated its intention to buy from the United States million tons of grain a year, give or take 20 percent, in each of the next five years. For our part, we stated our intention to supply Poland's pres- ent and future demand for grains, subject to supply av
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