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>> My name is Andrew Slego.

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Right now what I'm doing
is I live in Washington DC.

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I work for the United States
Department of Agriculture.

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Within that large organization I work
for the Foreign Agricultural Service.

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I work a lot with the country of Pakistan.

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A lot of the projects we're doing
there is, as far as development work,

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they have a lot of the same
crops and stuff that we have.

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So the one project that we're doing with them
is it's an SPS Distance Learning Project.

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So they have different things that they
want to ship to different countries,

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but there's different sanitary and
phytosanitary issues that they have with that.

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So that could be, you know, they want to
ship, you know, wheat or corn or something

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to another country, but there's all
sorts of bugs and pests and stuff in it.

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And if it goes to get shipped in to that
country that ship - they're going to reject it

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because they don't want bugs
and pests, you know.

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They might not have that in their country
and they don't want that coming in.

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So what we've been doing is we've
developed these online modules

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that their producers can go through, their
Department of Plant Protection can go through

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and kind of read through, you know,
how you can reduce the amount of pests

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and the issues that are with trade export.

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So that way they can effectively trade better.