L. M. Roberts, “The Rockefeller Foundation Program in the Agricultural Sciences,” Economic Botany 15, no. 4 (Fall 1961), 296-301.

Notes

• 299-300 – “In 1960 the officials of the Ministry and the Foundation mutually dcided dthat the point had bee nreached at which it would be desirable to place more of the responsibilities for the direction, administration, and execution of the research program on the Mexican scientists who have been trained in considerable numbers to shoulder them. As a consequence, a new organization, the National Institute of Agricultural Research, has been established recently in the Ministry to consolidate all federal agricultural research in a single administrative branch. With the creation of this institute, the Office of Special Studies has been discontinued and its functions are being integrated with those of the new organization.”
• 300 – “The improved vaireties and lines from the Mexican and Colombian programs are made freely available to the cooperators. The vast reservoir of indigenous races of maize in the corn germ plasm banks in Mexico and Colombia are being studied and evaluated on an international scale with the help of some of the leading United States scientists and the corn breeders of Latin America.”
• 301 – “The program has had the good fortune of receiving warm acceptance, understanding, and support from government officials, collaborating scientists, and the general public in the different countries where it has activities. This is very important, for technical assistance can be effective only where there is a strong local desire to receive and make use of it.”
• L. M. Roberts was at the time Associate Director for Agricultural Sciences, The Rockefeller Foundation