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 116 STAT. 286 PUBLIC LAW 107-171—MAY 13, 2002 Basin countries to increase farm production and farmer incomes, the President may— "(1) establish and administer a program, to be known as the 'John Ogonowski Farmer-to-Farmer Program', of farmerto-farmer assistance between the United States and such countries to assist in— "(A) increasing food production and distribution; and "(B) improving the effectiveness of the farming and marketing operations of agricultural producers in those countries; "(2) use United States agricultural producers, agriculturalists, colleges and universities (including historically black colleges and universities, land grant colleges or universities, and foundations maintained by colleges or universities), private agribusinesses, private organizations (including grassroots organizations with an established and demonstrated capacity to carry out such a bilateral exchange program), private corporations, and nonprofit farm organizations to work in conjunction with agricultural producers and farm organizations in those countries, on a voluntary basis— "(A) to improve agricultural and agribusiness operations and agricultural systems in those countries, including improving— "(i) animal care and health; "(ii) field crop cultivation; "(iii) fruit and vegetable growing; "(iv) livestock operations; "(v) food processing and packaging; "(vi) farm credit; "(vii) marketing; "(viii) inputs; and "(ix) agricultural extension; and "(B) to strengthen cooperatives and other agricultural groups in those countries; "(3) transfer the knowledge and expertise of United States agricultural producers and businesses, on an individual basis, to those countries while enhancing the democratic process by supporting private and public agriculturally related organizations that request and support technical assistance activities through cash and in-kind services; "(4) to the maximum extent practicable, make grants to or enter into contracts or other cooperative agreements with private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, land grant universities, private agribusiness, or nonprofit farm organizations to carry out this section (except that any such contract or other agreement may obligate the United States to make outlays only to the extent that the budget authority for such outlays is available under subsection (d) or has otherwise been provided in advance in appropriation Acts); "(5) coordinate programs established under this section with other foreign assistance programs and activities carried out by the United States; and "(6) to the extent that local currencies can be used to meet the costs of a program established under this section, augment funds of the United States that are available for such a program through the use, within the country in which the program is being conducted, of—

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