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210 History of the International Rice Research Institute5. Information, including library, documentation, publication, collection and disseminationof information, printing, etc.B. Senior Research Scientists: In line with the above organization pattern, it is suggestedthat senior research scientists of the following subject matters could be recruited as theprogram develops:1. Plant breeder 8. Soil physicist2. Plant geneticist 9. Agronomist3. Plant taxonomist or 10. Agricultural engineercytogeneticist11. Biochemist4. Plant physiologist 12. Agricultural chemist (processing)5. Plant pathologist 13. Agricultural economist6. Entomologist 14. Farm management specialist7. Soil chemist 15. Information officerC. Each unit, be it a department, division, office or laboratory, must carry a dualresponsibility; i.e., research and training. The educational function of the Instituteshould always be emphasized.D. It is proposed that basic studies be emphasized in the research program so that resultsthus obtained will be useful to all the rice-producing countries. Local program, suchas breeding of a particular variety for local purpose, should be left to gubernatorialinstitutions.E. It is proposed that as the Institute moves on, it is worthy to consider the appointmentof the following officers to be selected from local scientists in certain major riceproducingcountries, where there are adequate research programs carried on andwhere there are abundant materials and information to be collected, to warrant itscooperation and coordination:1. Coordination officer — on coordination of research program and collection ofexperimental materials.2. Information officer — on collection and translation of rice literatures, disseminationof information for the Institute.There could be either a coordination or information office, or both, or one officerplaying the role of the two, in the appointment from a particular country. They are notthe employees of the Institute, but they could receive honorarium from the Institute,the rate of which depending upon the load of work to be carried. The Institute willpay their travelling expenses if they are called in for conference or consultation.F. For the building program of the Institute, it is suggested that:1. Field houses, service as shed for farm tools and tractors and related accessories, placefor hanging materials harvested, and offices for field workers, should be provided.2. A blackboard should be installed in each laboratory.3. In crossing-room, if any, a 100% relative humidity in the room must be assured forsuccessful crossing.It is the wish of those present in the meeting that the above suggestions will beforwarded to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of IRRI for theirconsideration.
Appendices 211Appendix 8OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENTINTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTECAPITAL COSTS OF ESTABLISHMENTRecommended actionApproval of a grant of $6.9 million to the International Rice ResearchInstitute at Los Baños, Laguna, the Philippines, for the purpose of financingthe capital costs of establishing the Institute.BackgroundAt their meeting in June 1959, the Trustees approved an appropriation of $250,000 forexpenses incident to the establishment of an International Rice Research Institute in thePhilippines. The Institute was to be established jointly with the Rockefeller Foundationto carry on a program of research, training, and dissemination of information aimed atincreasing the quantity and improving the quality of rice, the world’s most importantfood crop.Plans for the Institute have been well advanced since the Trustees gave theirapproval in principle to the project last June. The Rockefeller Foundation has appropriated$185,000 for operating expenses through December 31,1960 and has agreed toconsider requests for funds to cover the operating expenses of the Institute in futureyears. The Philippine cabinet has given its approval to the Institution’s establishmentas an autonomous tax-free body and has granted it automatic exemption from all dutiesand taxes on imports and from taxes on the salaries of foreign staff members. A memorandumof agreement outlining the Institute’s purposes, organization, powers, privileges,and proposed financing, substantially as they were described to the Trustees lastJune, was signed in New York in December by the Presidents of the Ford andRockefeller Foundations and the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources of thePhilippine government. This action was reported to the Trustees at the Decembermeeting of the Board.Of the Ford Foundation’s original appropriation of $250,000, $155,000 has since beengranted to the University of the Philippines for the acquisition of 69.8 hectares (173.5acres) of land for the Institute. Added to land to be made available on a long-term leaseby the University of the Philippines, this will assure the Institute of the land requiredfor its experimental plots, laboratories, administration buildings, and staff housing.Another $90,000 has been made available by the Rockefeller Foundation for otherexpenses incident to the establishment of the Institute.Since last September, the Rockefeller Foundation’s associate director for agriculturalsciences, Dr. Robert F. Chandler, Jr., has been at work in the Philippines on plans
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