Excerpt from Soil Salinity and Irrigation in the Soviet Union: Report of a Technical Study Group An agreement was concluded on December 1, 1959, between the Govern ments of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics providing for exchanges in the cultural, technical, and educational fields. This is the second such agreement; the first was concluded in 1958. Agriculture, which plays an important role in the national economies of the two countries, was specifically included in the agreements as a field for exchange of specialists. The us. Department of Agriculture accordingly sent to the Soviet Union in 1960 four technical study groups of specialists in the following subjects: Handling, storage, and transportation of grain; food processing; agricultural information and planning; and soil salinity. The Soviet Union in turn sent to the United States in 1960 three delega tions of specialists in the following subjects: Food processing; fertilizers, insecticides, and weed killers; and agricultural science and information. In 1961, three additional Soviet teams were sent in the following fields: Cereal and forage seed production; breeding and hybridization of cattle and pigs; and mechanization of cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets and potatoes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.