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2008-09-10 Hungarian Parliamentarians Look At Agricultural Biotechnology
In The U.S.

"Coordinated by the Embassy's Foreign Agricultural Service,a group of Hungarian Parliamentarians received first-hand information on agricultural biotechnology during a week-long visit to the U.S. at the end of August.

The Hungarian delegation spent its first two days in Washington, DC where they were received by Michael Yost, the FAS/USDA Administrator, and then met with representatives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration.
The visit continued in Boone and Des Moines, Iowa, the agricultural heartland of America. The delegation saw a Farm Progress Show and spent time with Monsanto discussing new farming.
They also met with leading scientists at the Iowa State University and examined the issue of biofuels and food.
Given the importance of agriculture in both Hungary and the U.S., the Hungarian visitors found much in common with their American interlocutors."
Source: U.S. Embassy Hungary