| Abstract |
This first annual report of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center has a two-fold objective: 1) to set down in type the objectives, philosophy and broad policy outline of the Center and 2) to report on progress and results obtained during the past year. The CIMMYP evolved from many years of cooperative effort between the Rockefeller Foundation and the government of Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, and more recently India, in the improvement of quantity and quality of maize and wheat. The history of this cooperative work is adequately described in the Annual Reports of the Rockefeller Foundation's program in the Agricultural Sciences covering the years 1959-65. The Center was originally established in 1963 as a cooperative program with the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture. However, by early 1966 the growing demands on this program by the ever-widening food gap around the world indicated the need for a restructuring and expansion of activities. As a result, the Center was reorganized and established on April 12, 1966, in accordance with Mexican law, as a non-profit scientific and educational institution by Mexico's Ministry of Agriculture and the Rockefeller Foundation to be governed by an international board of directors. This new organizational structure provides the CIMMYT with the necessary freedom for operation of its world-wide programs and for receipt of funds from all agencies interested in advancing its goals. The board in its first meeting on September 19, 1966, approved the programs for the calendar year 1967; major financial support was provided by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. |
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