2006 Press Releases
The U.S. Embassy in Georgia Announces Cochran Fellowship Program Competition for 2007
December 27, 2006
Tbilisi, Georgia -- The US Embassy in Tbilisi is pleased to announce the opening of the annual Cochran Fellowship Program (CFP) competition for short-term (2-3 weeks) training in the U.S. for senior and mid-level agriculturists, managers and administrators concerned with agricultural development, trade, agribusiness management and marketing from the public and private sectors. CFP is part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, Office of Capacity Building and Development, Trade and Scientific Exchanges Division.
Program objectives are to assist Georgia to develop agricultural systems necessary to meet the food needs of its domestic populations; and to strengthen and enhance trade linkages with other countries.
In 2007 priority topics for Georgia will be: a) Food Processing; b) Seed production; c) Food Safety; d) Agricultural Marketing; e) Animal Disease Control.
Command of the English language is preferred (oral communication).
Application forms may be picked up at the US Embassy front guard office, or obtained through the Embassy web page http://georgia.usembassy.gov. January 25, 2007 is a deadline for submitting an application. Interviews will be held in February or March 2007.
For further information please contact Maia Mazanishvili, Administrative Assistant at US Department of Agriculture. Tel: 27-79-34.