Title:
Asmundson, Vigfus Samundar
Creator/Contributor:
John Black & Associates, photographer
Date:
undated
Note:
V.S. Asmundson, Professor of Poultry Husbandry at the University of California, discussing improvements in
chicken breeding with three visitors from Latin America, who with some 50 other delegates from many
parts of the world, recently inspected agricultural research facilities at the University's Davis
campus. Seen here with Prof. Asmundson are Horacio Alfredo Campos Meriggi of Uruguay, Aristedes
Espinosa of Paraguay and Julio Antonio Vega Chevalier of Panama. The visitors are participating in the
six-week session of the International Conference of Agricultural and Cooperative Credit in Berkeley,
and visited Davis during one of a series of field trips designed to permit first hand observation of
California agricultural methods. The conference, being conducted by the University of California with
cooperation from the government's Point 4 Program agencies, has brought together rural credit experts
from some 30 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Near East.
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