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Article: What's Doing In The Delta?
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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The Mississippi Delta is one of the most fertile agricultural areas in the United States--indeed quite possibly, in the world, yet it is also home to several impoverished rural and minority communities with inadequate roads, health care and education.
To help alleviate the region's pockets of rural poverty, many Federal and state agencies are already at work, assisting in everything from enhancing nutrition for children to improving roads. What could an internationally focused agency such as the FAS have to offer the Delta?
Actually, a great deal.
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