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AGRICULTURE

From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Former Republics Seen as Major Customers: The former Soviet republics can eventually be “more important markets” for U.S. farmers than the old U.S.S.R., America’s longtime No. 1 grain customer, Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan said. The department said the former republics can now apply individually for export credit guarantees and export subsidies originally offered to the Soviet Union.

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