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U.S. Code as of:
01/03/05
Section 2611. Congressional findings and declaration of policy
Potatoes are a basic food in the United States and foreign
countries. They are produced by many individual potato growers in
every State in the United States and imported into the United
States from foreign countries. In 1966, there were one million four
hundred and ninety-seven thousand acres of cropland in the United
States devoted to the production of potatoes.
Potatoes and potato products move in the channels of interstate
or foreign commerce, and potatoes which do not move in such
channels directly burden or affect interstate commerce in potatoes
and potato products.
The maintenance and expansion of existing potato markets and the
development of new or improved markets are vital to the welfare of
potato growers and those concerned with marketing, using, and
processing potatoes as well as the general economic welfare of the
Nation.
Therefore, it is the declared policy of the Congress and the
purpose of this chapter that it is essential in the public
interest, through the exercise of the powers provided herein, to
authorize the establishment of an orderly procedure for the
financing, through adequate assessments on all potatoes harvested
in the United States for commercial use and imported into the
United States from foreign countries, and the carrying out of an
effective and continuous coordinated program of research,
development, advertising, and promotion designed to strengthen
potatoes' competitive position, and to maintain and expand domestic
and foreign markets for potatoes and potato products.
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