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Page 26 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 28, 1986 Happy trio Avital and Natan Shcharansky show off their newborn daughter, Rahel, at Misgav Ladach Hospital. Farmers to benefit from program Kahane Continued from page 1 the Kach fund-raiser. Overland Park police arrested him after ward. Preceding the speech. Shukair and M uslet were seen outside the hotel protesting Kahane's appear ance. They picketed alongside about 35 protesters representing the American Jewish Committee here, two congregations, the Jewish Community Relations Bureau of Greater Kansas City, the Rabbinical Association of Greater Kansas City and Ruah/ New Jewish Agenda. Rabbinical Association spokes man Rabbi Philip Field issued a statement condemning Kahane and his views on Arab-Israeli relations. Earlier Tuesday, Kahane at tempted to meet with leaders of the Jewish Federation or JCR B, despite their consistent opposi tion to him and his policies. As in other cities, he was denied access to Federation offices. “Students at Laredo (Texas) Junior College, area farmers and ranchers, and Israeli agricultural experts are tying together in an historic endeavor to find new answers to the complex prob lems facing agriculture in South Texas,” Agriculture Commis sioner Jim Hightower recently announced. Hightowersaid theTexas-Israel Exchange (TIE), which he co chairs, and I.aredo Junior Col lege have come together to deter mine the best ways to proceed with a planned demonstration project and teaching farm, to be situated both on and adjacent to the college campus. The demonstration project and teaching farm will use 100 acres on the campus of Laredo Junior College, as well as an adjoining 35 acres that have been offered to the venture by Randolph Slaughter, a Laredo grower and shipper of vegetables. According to H ightower, a team of four Israeli experts will arrive at Laredo later this year to begin making their evaluation. That study is expected to take approx imately four months to complete. Early next year, an Israeli farm manager will arrive on campus and spend the next year oversee ing the actual development of the demonstration and teaching farm. These costs will all be paid by the Jewish National Fund through a special research and development fund it has established with TIE. A 10-member steering com mittee comprised of Laredo-area public officials and local busi nesses and agricultural leaders, has been formed to work with T1F. as the project moves from its infancy stages into a full-fledged operation. “The same people who helped reforest the Israeli desert and establish the kibbutz movement in Israel are now able to help Texas farmers, ranchers and food processors in the areas of drip irrigation and water conservation, biomass and solar energy genera tion, cut flower and specialty vegetable production, and green house operation. Several of those applications will be used at the Laredo Junior College project, depending upon the results of the initial evaluation,” Hightower said. “This demonstration project and teaching farm will certainly provide hands-on expertise to students of Laredo Junior Col lege and their studies of agricul tural production, food process ing and marketing. It will also provide badly needed assistance to existing producers in this area of south Texas as they search out new, more marketable, crops and struggle to find more effi cient ways of producing their existing crops. Already, discus sions are underway with admin istrators from the Tecnologia de Nuevo Laredo and the Univer- sidad de Saltillo, exploring the feasibility of making the Laredo project a three-way initiative—- Texas-Israel-Northern Mexico,” Hightower said. Commissioner Hightower and Dean Juarez were part of a dele gation of approximately 40 Tex ans who recently made a two- week tour of Israel. While in Israel, the Texans witnessed the successes of Israeli drip irriga tion technology and its biomass and solar energy projects, and they observed firsthand the operation of Israel’s farmer co operative movement. The Texas-Israel Exchange is the only partnership of its type between the Israeli government and an individual state. The concept of TIE originated with a trip that Hightower made to Israel in 1984, and a Memo randum of Agreement was for mally signed in Austin at the conclusion of a trip that Israeli Deputy Minister of Agriculture Abraham Katz Oz made to Texas last year. While Katz Oz and High tower are co-chairs of TIE, its membership is comprised of leaders from the governmental, agricultural, academic and busi ness communities in Texas and Israel. “TIE is now developing a statewide series of projects like this one at Laredo, in such areas as intensive and alternative crop production, water conservation, cooperative marketing, integrated pest management, and biomass and solar energy generation,” H ightower said. “The role of TIE is to deter mine which projects are feasible, help ‘package’ these projects, and then market these projects to the groups of individuals who can best implement them.” Specifically, the following pro jects are now being developed by TIE: • adoption in Texas of innova tive Israeli poultry technology; • introduction of Israel’s cut flower production in Texas; • utilization of Israeli intensive vegetable production techniques and development of new market ing systems by limited-resource and minority cooperatives; • a 400-acre pilot drip-irrigation project on state-owned land in west Texas to grow asparagus and pistachio nuts; • the establishment ot computer linkups between the Agricultural Ministry of Israel and the Texas Department of Agriculture to allow rapid transfer of trade in quiries; and • farmer, student and researcher exchange programs. the Gofldei^Buddha restaurant 1905 Clairmont Road (1 2 block south of North Druid Hills Road) 633-5252 An exciting experience in au thentic Mandarin and Szechuen cuisine The menu is a pleasing combination of modest prices and more than 100 exotic entrees and dinner combina tions. 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