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Date Added: June 06, 2008 06:04:02 PM

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to invest $150 million in new agricultural development programs with the goal of doubling food production and food trade by 2013 in countries "with the potential to become major producers in their regions," Schafer said in Rome.

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