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In hearing the testimony earlier, my feeling is that every Gov- 

 ernment agency ought to have a business plan or strategic plan. I 

 would lean to Mr. Terhaar's statement that in that partnership 

 that I spoke of earlier, I really believe that our cooperative mem- 

 bership should have their own strategic or marketing plans and 

 have access to information, have access to changing markets, have 

 access to what financing alternatives are available. And that 

 should be incorporated in their strategic plans as opposed to having 

 that information accumulated and maybe just sitting in a plan doc- 

 ument with the FAS or the USD A. 



Mr. CONDIT. Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. Johnson. No, we were not consulted. I would think that 

 maybe our task force that we talked about in our plan could evolve 

 into something like that. But as I understand, it is a philosophical 

 problem and I would agree with the other gentlemen that it really 

 should be a computation or compilation of private industry's plans, 



Mr. CONDIT. Let me ask Mr. Notar; the survey that you filled 

 out, was that mailed to you? 



Mr. Notar. I believe so, sir. 



Mr. CONDIT. So I take it that the balance of the panel did not 

 get anything in the mail, that is why you didn't respond, or no one 

 phoned or an5^hing like that? 



Mr. Krajeck. That is right. 



Mr. CONDIT. Correct? 



Mr. Terhaar, you noted that 50 percent of the OICD activities 

 are not within the mission of enhancing U.S. agricultursd products. 

 Can you give us some examples of this, please? 



Mr. Terhaar. The mission as I read it, of OICD, is twofold. One 

 is to transfer agricultural technology and technical information and 

 management skills of USDA, and — sorry, I am reading from the 

 wrong portion there, excuse me, Mr. Chairman. 



"To help USDA agencies, U.S. universities and others to enhance 

 U.S. agricultural competitive a^cultural competitiveness." That 

 half of the mission, I think, fits within what USDA is doing. 



The other half of the mission is to help increase income and food 

 availability in developing nations by mobilizing expertise for agri- 

 culturally led economic growth. I do not believe that half of the 

 mission is within USDA or within FAS's purview, if it sticks to the 

 mission of helping the private sector of the U.S. export U.S. agri- 

 cultural products. 



I notice in looking at the budget of OICD for 1992, that they had 

 an operating budgets of $38.8 million. Of that, only $7.2 million 

 was appropriated by Congress to OICD. The remainder, $28.4 mil- 

 lion, came primarily from the Agency for International Develop- 

 ment. An additional $3.1 million was expended in 1992 for develop- 

 ment assistance activities managed by OICD on behalf of other 

 countries and international organizations. 



Again, if we focus on the mission as being to promote U.S. agri- 

 cultural product exports, I don't believe those fit well with the FAS 

 mission. 



Mr. CONDIT. Let me correct an impression that apparently I 

 might have left with the survey. I have just been told the survey 

 that you received, Mr. Notar, was sent out by Mr. Penny. He sent 



