Announcement that the Bank Is Sending an Agricultural Mission to Peru on March 23, 1951

ROLD'FOR RELEASE • FOR TBE PRESS Press Release No. 2.39 TB!:, n~TtONAL !AMC FOR RECONSTBtJ9TION AND Dl!,VJ!:I;OPMENr For Release Friday, March 23, 1951· The Internationa1 Bank f0l9 Reco1)struction and Develo:pment announced to~r that it is send:ing an agricultural mission to Pen at the request of the Government of that country. . The mission ~-rill ~urvey Peruvian asr:iciutural ~olicies and p~actices and exainine high pr:l,ority asr1cultural projects! The lr).elllbers of the mission are: Dr. J. Tnomsen Lu;nd, agricultural s:pecial~st in the Bank's Loan Depa~~ent, Gerald v. Cruise, ensineering consultant, end Douwe Groenveld, agricultur~l ~xpert in the Economic Depart- ment. The mission will ari"ive in I.,ima March 26 ~nd will re?11a1n in Peru approximately two months. An Inte~tional BaJlk miasion which visited Peru in the sumne~ of 1950 concluded tllat the ~~icult\U'al aecto~ should have a h:tgh priority in l'eru•s developmen·t p:,;-oeram.