---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3740"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3740"
heading: "Study on improving African agricultural practices"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3740"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Extension of Certain Trade Benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Development Related Issues"
---

# §3740. Study on improving African agricultural practices

- (a) **In general—** The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with American Land Grant Colleges and Universities and not-for-profit international organizations, is authorized to conduct a 2-year study on ways to improve the flow of American farming techniques and practices to African farmers. The study shall include an examination of ways of improving or utilizing—
  - (1) knowledge of insect and sanitation procedures;
  - (2) modern farming and soil conservation techniques;
  - (3) modern farming equipment (including maintaining the equipment);
  - (4) marketing crop yields to prospective purchasers; and
  - (5) crop maximization practices.

  The Secretary of Agriculture shall submit the study to the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate and the [Committee](/usc/19/2601.md?p=3) on Agriculture of the House of Representatives not later than September 30, 2001.

- (b) **Land Grant Colleges and not-for-profit institutions—** In conducting the study under [subsection (a)](#a), the Secretary of Agriculture is encouraged to consult with American Land Grant Colleges and not-for-profit international organizations that have firsthand knowledge of current African farming practices.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–200, title I, § 130, May 18, 2000, 114 Stat. 274.)