Excerpt from Public Administration in Agricultural Development: Report on a Special Course, Sponsored by United States Department of Agriculture in Cooperation With Agency for International Development and University of Wisconsin, June 18-July 20, 1962 This special short course, Public Administration in Agricultural Develop ment, was developed to help agricultural administrators of foreign govern ments increase their capacities for efficient administration. In the course of providing an opportunity to individuals of other countries to study American agriculture, it became apparent that the limiting factors in their agricultural development included administrative problems as well as technical ones. This special program was thus organized to provide training in public administration for certain officials. The visiting officials selected for participation were ones with substantial administrative responsibilities in their governments. The broad objective of this program was to develop in participants an appreciation of the value and importance of public administration and how this function is applied in agricultural development. The focus was on the job of the administrator, demands and requirements, the administrator's role in policy formation and decision-making, and skills and ways to improve administrative performance. 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.