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 organizations. A failure to at least talk to one another is a prescription for duplication 



and inefficiency. 



Mr. Chairman, I am serving in my current capacity at the Russian Ministry of 

 Agriculture while on leave from my position as Extension Professor of Agricultural 

 Economics in the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. At the university I am 

 involved in education and research on agricultural policy, natural resource economics, 

 and environmental quality. Before taking leave I was Vice Chair of the National Public 

 Policy Education Committee, an organization supported by Farm Foundation of 

 Chicago and representing policy educators from all 50 states. 



In 1979-80 I was on-leave from UK to serve as public policy coordinator in the 

 Science and Education Administration-Extension Service. USDA. During 1980-81 I 

 served in the U.S. Senate as legislative aid for agriculture and natural resources to 

 Senator Wendell Ford. 



I have had a long-standing professional interest in iriternational agricultural 

 development. During the last twenty years I have worked on both a short-term and a 

 long-term basis in Asia. This included two years on the technical assistance team to 

 the $7 million Northeast Rainfed Agricultural Development Project in Thailand. I served 

 as economist and an advisor to the Departments of Economics, Cooperative 

 Development, and Fisheries in the Thai Ministry of Agriculture. More recently I worked 



