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Article: UAF Donates $8 Million of Seeds to Armenia
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- The Armenian Reporter
- Article date:
- May 13, 1995
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Pauline Yoshihashi
Armenian Reporter, The
05-13-1995
UAF Donates $8 Million of Seeds to Armenia.
The United Armenian Fund recently donated over $8 million worth of corn and assorted vegetable seeds to Armenia to help provide locally grown foodstuff to the population of Armenia and Karabagh.
The donation consisted of four varieties of sweet corn seeds weighing 354,000 pounds, and 24 varieties of other vegetable seeds weighing 155,000 pounds, and packed in a total of 21 twenty-foot containers. The UAF paid a small administrative fee of $4,000 to obtain these very valuable seeds which were secured after elaborate arrangements with several agencies.
"Due to the scarcity of foods and skyrocketing ...