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Roger Revelle, Papers 1929-1980, MC6, Box 21, f. 49, "[Pakistan, Papers, March 1963]," 



SIO Archives, UCSD. 



M.irch 14, 1U63 



Dr. Leona Dau.Tsgartnor 



Assistant Administrator 



Adminlatr.itlon for International Dovelopacnt 



Stato Dopartnont 



WasJiington 25, D. C. 



Dear Leonat 



Enclosed is an outline of rcsoarch j/rojects 

 neodod for a^riculturnl development in We^t Pakistan. 

 Those correspond to nost of the research needs I list- 

 ed at the meeting of the AID ne.-jo.irch Coraaittec on 

 February 28. The projects are broken doun into five 

 categories: Health ond Nutrition; Agriculture; 

 Economic and Social nesoarch; Education and Cowouni- 

 catlons; and Englnooring. Eacli project is assigned 

 priority 1, 2 or 3 depending on whether it should be 

 started immediately, within three years, or within 

 five to seven year:?. Ro have also indicated the 

 typos of investigation required, tJiat is whether the 

 project conslstH of one or more of the folioiving 

 kinds of work: data collection ; " aophl.qticated " 

 surveys , involvlnj-j devolopment of survey niotliods as 

 well as expertise in conducting the survey; analyais , 

 by which ire mean compilation of existing infortaition 

 and applic.ition of various analytical methods to 

 answer various questions; and exi)eriBGntotion , tliat 

 is, field or laboratory ex[)oriiaents and tests. 

 Possible contractors nrc listf.'d for each project, 

 Bainly to illustrate the kind of organization <.\hich 

 could appropriately undertake the task. 



VVc have given flr:jt priority to ten projects. 

 These are tfic ones I ivrote doun on the bl.ickbcard in 

 Jerry Wiesnor's office. T\\elvo projects are listed ae 

 second priority antl fiv;; as third priority, 



Drs. Robert Burden and [larold Thomas of our 

 Harvard group aro sending Dr. Fei detailed descriptions 

 of six of t!»e first priority projects, together Vrith 

 oritimatod of roquii'od personnel and annual dollar 

 cofits. The cstiniatod dollnr costs for the other four 

 first priority projects are as follows: i)rojcct 1, 

 Nutritional surveys - ;>150,000; j)rojoct T), Irri- 

 f,:ition •iator requirements - finnual dollar costs for 

 a five yf^ar period, B200,000; jn-ojt^ct 15, Modification 

 of school curricula for agricultural developaent, annua} 

 dollar costs foi- five year p-.^riod, $100,000; project 

 19, EccnoTilcH of rcrtilizvjr production - $75,000. In 



