The presentation was made by U.S. Ambassador to the FSM Peter Prahar, and NRCS resource conservationist Paul Lake. The two U.S. officials visited the national campus and handed over the computers to Professor Kiyoshi Phillip, the chairman of the agriculture division.
Prahar said the computers were being donated to COM-FSM to help the students do their research and for their other academic needs.
Acting President Ringlen Ringlen thanked the two U.S. officials on behalf of the college.
After handing over the computers, Prahar and Lake toured the agriculture farm where Phillip showed them the farm’s waste fertilizer program.
According to Phillip, this is not the first time that the NRCS has assisted the college.
NRCS has helped with the designing of the division’s pig-pens and has also provided national workshops for all the FSM states in the areas of farming, vegetable gardening and fishing.
USDA-NCRS has also been providing services to the Marshall Islands and Palau.
