The Rural Voice, 1978-11, Page 41Farming Around the World
Prostaglandin
bred cows
watched closely
Agriculture Canada's livestock division
in Winnipeg is keeping close tabs on 100
cows grazing on desolate rangeland near
lake Winnipegosis in Manitoba. The cows
were bred with the use of a new drug called
prostaglandin.
Prostaglandin --registered for use by the
federal government last year --is a complex
of chemicals that can be used to
synchronize the breeding cycle of cattle to
facilitate the use of artifical insemination.
Mer administering the drug, farmers and
artificial insemination technicians can
breed cows and know that a good
percentage --up to 85 per cent in some
cases --will conceive.
Although good management remains the
key to successful cattle breeding. the
federal department's agriculture officers
see the use of prostaglandin and artificial
insemination in the beef business as an aid
to improving the quality of beef as well as
improving management.
Starvation could be conquered
Cereal & Bread Conference hears
Feeding the world's population was the
theme of the Sixth International cereal and
Bread Congress in Winnipeg recently.
The Congress, sponsored by the Ameri-
can Association of Cereal Chemists, the
Canadian International Grains Institute
and the International Association of Cereal
Chemists, drew 2,000 cereal scientists and
development experts from 55 countries of
the worid. The theme they discuss during
the conference was Better Nutrition for the
World's Millions.
Since the world's population is expected
to double from the 1978 level by the year
2013, speakers at the conference agreed
that scientists will be asked to offer a
solution through the introduction of new
varieties of cereals, with better agricultural
techniques and genetic improvements.
The scientists at the conference decided,
given certain policies, world poverty.
including starvation and malnutrition,
could, optimistically, be conquered by the
year 2000.
Garson N. Vogel, former chief com-
missioner of the Canadian Wheat Board
and now executive director of the United
Nations World Food Program in Rome,
said the solution of the food problem "will
require sustained efforts over several
decades by the developing countries
themselves, with the active co-operation of
the developed countries and the inter-
national organizations concerned."
Mr. Vogel predicted annual aid require-
ments will increase to 15 million tons by
1985, from the level of 10 million tons in
1974. But, agreeing with the Chinese
proverb. Mr. Vogel said give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day, but teach him
to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Dr. Anderson, another conference
speaker, associate producer of the wheat
program for Centro International de
Mejoramiento dee Maiz y Trigo, said one
disadvantage of direct aid to Third World
Countries is, "As long as cheap food is
available in the recipient countries, their
own farm production is neglected and most
of their income goes into the development
of an industrial rather than a farm sector."
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