U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer praised the Texas A&M System's Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture for its Food for Progress project efforts in Guatemala during his recent trade mission to Central America. Schafer was in Guatemala in late September as part of the U.S. Agribusiness Trade and Investment Mission to Central America, which included representatives of 17 U.S. companies.
(Media-Newswire.com) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer praised the Texas A&M System’s Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture for its Food for Progress project efforts in Guatemala during his recent trade mission to Central America. Schafer was in Guatemala in late September as part of the U.S. Agribusiness Trade and Investment Mission to Central America, which included representatives of 17 U.S. companies.
The mission’s purpose was to promote cooperation, trade and investment between the U.S. and companies and entrepreneurs in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. While in Guatemala, Schafer focused on the work of women farmers from the area, as well as ongoing efforts to benefit Guatemalan agriculture and agribusiness.
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