| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | Contact: Beth Day |
| September 25, 2000 | (202)224-6404 |
Washington, D.C. – Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) was honored today by Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman on the 15th anniversary of an international agricultural training and exchange program that was established by the Senator.
"I am pleased the Cochran Fellowship Program has had a successful impact on trade and has served to enhance diplomatic relationships between our country and others," Cochran said. The Cochran Fellowship Program has funded 7,500 participants from 70 countries since its creation in the mid-1980's. Cochran Fellows have been trained in a variety of fields ranging from livestock management to agricultural economics. The program seeks to help improve agricultural trade between developing countries and the United States. A number of former participants in the Cochran program attended today's event, including Kubahycbek Omuraliev, the agricultural minister counselor to the United States from the Kyrgyz Republic. Omuraliev was his country's first Cochran Fellow in 1993.
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