Andrew is an International Agriculture Program Specialist with the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service. His main responsibility is to work with foreign countries to make sure everything the United States imports is up to par with the government regulations.
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>> My name is Andrew Slego. Right now what I'm doing is I live in Washington DC. I work for the United States Department of Agriculture. Within that large organization I work for the Foreign Agricultural Service. I work a lot with the country of Pakistan. A lot of the projects we're doing there is, as far as development work, they have a lot of the same crops and stuff that we have. So the one project that we're doing with them is it's an SPS Distance Learning Project. So they have different things that they want to ship to different countries, but there's different sanitary and phytosanitary issues that they have with that. So that could be, you know, they want to ship, you know, wheat or corn or something to another country, but there's all sorts of bugs and pests and stuff in it. And if it goes to get shipped in to that country that ship - they're going to reject it because they don't want bugs and pests, you know. They might not have that in their country and they don't want that coming in. So what we've been doing is we've developed these online modules that their producers can go through, their Department of Plant Protection can go through and kind of read through, you know, how you can reduce the amount of pests and the issues that are with trade export. So that way they can effectively trade better.
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