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International Conference on Agricultural and Cooperative Credit, on a visit to the University of
California at Davis, three Japanese farm credit experts listened intently as Roy Bainer, chairman of the
Department of Agricultural Engineering, explained the operation of a mechanical cotton picker. Hideo
Tokoro of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Susumu Oyamada of the Central Cooperative Bank and
Mototake Yukawa, President of the Central Cooperative Bank, were members of a group of fifty delegates
from some thirty countries around the world who are attending the International Conference on
Agricultural and Cooperative Credit in Berkeley, California. The visit to Davis was one of a series of
field trips the delegates are taking to acquaint themselves with California agricultural methods. The
worldwide conference, conducted by the University of California with the cooperation of the U.S. Point 4
Program agencies, has brought together rural credit administrators and graduate students from Latin
America, Asia, Africa and the Near East.
Date:
1952 August
Contributing Institution:
UC Davis, University Archives
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