US Department of Agriculture Donates Desktop Computers to COM-FSM

COM-FSM, Palikir, July 1, 2010 – The United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Recourses Conservation Services (USDA NCRS), in cooperation with the United States Embassy in the FSM, donated desktop computers to COM-FSM National Campus Agriculture Division.

Acting President Ringlen thanks Ambassador Prahar and Conservationist Lake in front
of a classroom full with agriculture students.

The presentation was made by the US Ambassador to the FSM, Peter Prahar, and NRCS Resource Conservationist, Paul Lake. The two U.S. officials visited the National Campus and handed over the computers to Professor Kiyoshi Phillip, the Chair of the Agriculture Division.

According to Ambassador Prahar, the computers were donated to COM-FSM to help the students when they do their researches and for their other academic needs. Acting President Ringlen Ringlen thanked the two U.S. officials on behalf of the College.

After handing over the computers, Ambassador Prahar and Conservationist Lake toured the agriculture farm where Professor Phillip showed them the farm’s waste fertilizer program.

According to Professor Phillip, this is not the first time that the NRCS has assisted the college. NRCS has helped with the designing of the division’s pig-pens and have also provided national workshops for all the FSM states in the areas of farming, vegetable gardening and fishing. The USDA NCRS has been providing such services to the Free Associated States of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.