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 1032 Food Production Mission. Domicile of S.O .I.P .A. Funds. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. b) Provision of means, tools, equipment, insecticides and other necessary items for the increase of production of food- stuffs of animal and vegetable origin; c) Amplification of the resources at the disposal of the Govern- ment of Venezuela for the development of production of foodstuffs of animal and vegetable origin, in order effici- ently and harmoniously to adapt that production to modern agricultural techniques employed in Venezuela and in the United States; d) Development of plans, technical assistance and the execution of irrigation, drainage and soil conservation works; e) Collaboration in the solution of problems of handling, storage, conservation and distribution of foodstuffs; f) Technical and financial assistance for agricultural coloniza- tion; and g) Improvement in the nutrition of the inhabitants of the areas where the production plan is to be especially developed. THIRD The Institute of Inter-American Affairs of the United States of America shall appoint a Food Production Mission in order to lend its collaboration to S.C.I.P.A. in the development of the production plan referred to. The said Mission shall be under the direction of an expert who shall have the title of Chief of the Food Production Mission in Venezuela. This Chief Official shall be the representative of the Division of Food Production of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs in Venezuela. FOURTH The S.C.I.P.A. will be a dependency of the Technical Institute of Immigration and Colonization and the Chief of the Food Production Mission in Venezuela shall be the Technical Director of the S.C.I.P .A. FIFTH The S.C .I.P.A. shall have its domicile in the city of Caracas, capital of the United States of Venezuela. SIXTH The necessary funds for the operation of the S.C .I .P.A. shall be provided within a period of one year through payments up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) on the part of the Government of the United States of America, and payments up to one million five hundred thirty thousand bolivares (Bs.1,530,000) on the part of the Government of the United States of Venezuela. The Government of the United States of America will also furnish additional sums up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) provided of course that this modus vivendi is extended for another year and that the Congress

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