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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