Are you a candidate for agricultural exchange scheme?

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 2, Issue 17, 25 September 1984, Page 11

Are you a candidate for agricultural exchange scheme?

Are you between 19-28 years of age? Have you some practical farming experience and a real wish to learn more about agriculture in other parts of the world? Are you single and in good health? Do you feel that you are adaptable? Would you like to travel ,with people of similar interests? Could you spare 7-14 months away from home? If your answer to all these questions is. yes, then you are a prime candidate for the International Agricultural

Exchange Association programmes which offer tours to Canada, Europe and 'Around the World'. The Association was formed in 1963 and operates exchange study tours in agriculture for young men and women from 18 different countries. It is a non-profit making organisation open to all rural young people who have the initiative, ambition and staying power to see the world. The main objectives of I. A.E. A. are to provide rural youth with an opportunity to study agricultural methods

in other parts of the world while also developing an understanding of life and cultural patterns in other countries and to strengthen and improve mutual understanding between the countries involved through the experience and personal contacts established between the trainee and host family. The Association is controlled by an Annual General Meeting and a Board of Directors and has close links with many young farmers' movements around the world. Applicants must have had at least one year's practical experience in agriculture. They can choose which type of training they would like to pursue, they are then placed with selected host families where in most cases they live and work as a member of the family. The I.A.E.A. makes the travel arrangements on a group basis and is responsible for obtaining work permits and employment on approved farms. The Association is always interested in hearing from people interested in becoming hosts for the scheme and indeed also in young people wishing to join I.A.E.A.