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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [57 STAT. SUPPLEMENTARY MEMORANDUM TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE SECRETARIA DE AGRICULTURA Y FOMENTO OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. stratElexpimeta 1. Under the terms of the existing Memorandum of Agreement Veracruz. between the Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, Mexico, and the Department of Agriculture, United States of America, dated April Ante.p. 1282. 11, 1941, more than a million locally produced and imported seeds of Hevea brasiliensis and several thousand imported trees budded to high-yielding clones of Hevea have been planted in nurseries of the central rubber experiment station, El Palmar, Veracruz, established in 1941 for rubber plant research and practical development of a Hevea rubber plantation industry. in Mexico. It is estimated that during the next twelve months about a quarter of a million trees budded to the improved clones of Hevea will be available at El Palmar. The project has been notably successful to the present date and with a rapidly expanding volume of valuable plant material it is necessary to make definite plans for the best use of the plant material and of the experience that has been gained, in order to further insure achieve- ment of a self-sustaining commercial rubber industry. Establishmeant of 2. The time has now arrived for taking the second essential step demonstration planta- tions. toward development of the industry, namely the establishing of government demonstration plantations to serve as proving grounds for the trees and plantation procedure and as augmented sources of improved budded trees for small farms and other commercial opera- tions. vAcqisition and e- 3. Accordingly, as soon as practicable the Mexican government velopment of tracts of land. will acquire five tracts of suitable land on which the best growth of Hevea may be expected, each tract containing not less than 300 hectares, for the purpose of developing demonstration plantations. The lands will be selected by a joint committee representing the Direcci6n General de Agricultura, Secretaria de Agricultura of Mexico and the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. In order to prepare in advance for the reception and planting of the budded nursery trees mentioned in paragraph 1, the Mexican Government will proceed to develop the five tracts of land at the appropriate time, dictated by the stage of growth of the nursery trees, and will bear the cost of such development. ndditional assist- 4. The United States Department of Agriculture will provide the ance and plant ma- terials. additional technical and supervisory assistance necessary in pro- portion to the augmented scope of work now proposed, and will con- tinue to supply budwood, budded stumps and other plant materials as improved strains of Hevea and other plants are developed by breed- ing and selection at the several cooperative stations in tropical America. Appropriations. 5. The development of this program is contingent upon appro- priation of money for the purpose by the Congresses of the United 1288

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