Table 5 — Growth in Commodity 0600 (timber and forest-products) research, 

 southern region, 1 from fiscal years 1968 to 1983 









Ratios of 









FY 1983 









totals to 



Item 



1968 : 



1983 ? 



FY 1968 totals 



Research scientist person-years 4 



91.5 



166 



1.8 



Number of research projects 



299 



443 



1.5 



Total funding, all sources 



$3,186,000 



$21,785,000 



6.8 



Funding by individual sources: 









State appropriations 



$1,295,000 



$10,926,000 



8.4 



Industry grants 



$185,000 



$2,587,000 



14.0 



Other non-Federal 



$197,000 



$1,244,000 



8.5 



Non-Federal total 



$1,677,000 



$14,757,000 



8.8 



Mclntire-Stennis 



$929,000 



$3,746,000 



3.7 



Hatch plus Regional Research 



$278,000 



$415,000 



1.5 



Other USDA grants 



$248,000 



$1,924,000 



7.8 



Non-USDA Federal grants 



$54,000 



$943,000 



17.5 



Federal total 



$1,509,000 



$7,028,000 



4.7 



1 Includes State agricultural experiment stations, cooperating forestry schools, other cooperating 

 institutions, for the 12 Southern States of this study plus Kentucky and Puerto Rico. Includes 

 1890 Land-Grant (primarily black) institutions, but their participation was minor. In FY 1983. 

 three reported a combined total of only 2.4 scientist person-years and four projects. 



2 From "Inventory of Agricultural Research. Volume II, Fiscal Year 1968 and Estimates for 

 Fiscal Year 1969" (U.S. Department of Agriculture. Research Program Development and Eval- 

 uation Staff 1969). 



3 From "Inventory of Agricultural Research. FY 1983" (U.S. Department of Agriculture. Co- 

 operative State Research Service 1984). 



4 Assistant professors and higher ranks. 



The number of research faculty efficient use of these personnel by 



increased by only 80 percent over providing them with adequate 



this 15-year period. But this was numbers of technicians and 



extremely important in adding to graduate assistants and sufficient 



the universities' permanent bases operating budgets. For example, in 



of talent and maximizing the 1964 only 164 graduate students 



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