SHARING UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL EXPERTISE AND INFORMATION.

SEC. 338. SHARING UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL EXPERTISE AND INFORMATION. Section 1542(d) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5622 note) is amended— 105 STAT. 1860 (1) by striking the subsection heading and inserting the following: “(d) E (Kika) De La Garza Agricultural Fellowship Program.— The Secretary of Agriculture (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Secretary’) shall establish a program, to be known as the ‘E (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship Program’, to develop agricultural markets in emerging democracies and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and the Soviet Union, as follows: “(1) Development of agricultural systems.—”; (2) in paragraph (1), by indenting 2 ems the left margin of subparagraphs (A) and (B) and redesignating such subparagraphs as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively; (3) in paragraph (2), by indenting 2 ems the left margin of subparagraphs (A) and (B) and redesignating such subparagraphs as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively; (4) by indenting 2 ems the left margin of paragraphs (1) through (9) and redesignating such paragraphs as subparagraphs (A) through (I), respectively; (5) by striking “subsection” each place it appears and inserting “paragraph”; (6) by striking “paragraph (1)” each place it appears and inserting “subparagraph (A)”; (7) by striking “paragraph” inserting “subparagraph (B)”; (8) by striking “paragraph” inserting “subparagraph (B)”; (9) in paragraph (1)(B) (as so redesignated)— (A) by striking “and” at the end of clause (i); (B) by striking the period at the end of clause (ii) and inserting “; and”; and (C) by adding at the end the following new clause: “(iii) by providing for necessary subsistence expenses in emerging democracies and necessary transportation expenses of United States agricultural producers and other individuals knowledgeable in agricultural and agribusiness matters to assist in transferring their knowledge and expertise to entities in emerging democracies.”; (10) in paragraph (1)(I) (as so redesignated), by striking “$5,000,000” and inserting “$10,000,000”; and (11) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) Agricultural information program.— “(A) Establishment of program.— The Secretary shall establish a program, administered to complement the emerging democracies export promotion program developed under this section, to initiate and develop collaboration between the United States Department of Agriculture, United States agribusinesses, and appropriate agricultural institutions in the Soviet Union in order to promote the exchange of information and resources that will make a long-term contribution to the establishment of a free market food production and distribution system in the Soviet Union and the enhancement of agricultural trade with the United States. 105 STAT. 1861 “(B) Implementation.— The Secretary shall draw on the Department of Agriculture’s experience to design, implement, and evaluate, on a cost-sharing basis with cooperating agricultural institutions, a program to— “(i) compile, through contacts with the Government of the Soviet Union and private sector officials in the Soviet Union, a list of their agricultural institutions, including the location, capabilities, and needs of the institutions; “(ii) make such information available through an appropriate agency of the Department of Agriculture to agribusinesses and agricultural institutions in the United States and other agencies of the United States Government; and “(iii) carry out a program— “(I) to review available agricultural information resources, to determine which would be useful for the purposes of this program; “(II) to arrange for the exchange of persons associated with such agricultural institutions and agribusinesses with experience or interest in the areas of need identified in clause (i); and “(III) to help establish contacts between agricultural entrepreneurs and businesses in the United States and the Soviet Union, which may include individuals and entities participating in the program established under paragraph (1), to facilitate cooperation and joint enterprises. “(C) Consultation and coordination.— The Secretary shall consult and coordinate with the Secretary of State and the Agency for International Development in the formulation and implementation of this program in conjunction with overall assistance to the Soviet Union. “(D) Definition.— For the purposes of this subsection, the term ‘Soviet Union’ means the Soviet Union, its successor entities, or any of the individual republics of the Soviet Union. “(E) Authorization for appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the program established under this paragraph.”.