COM-FSM Receives Desktop Computers from US Department of Agriculture 

Press Release #0710-04 (COM-FSM #0710-01)
Palikir, Pohnpei – FSM Information Services
July 2, 2010

Palikir, Pohnpei (COM-FSM): July 2, 2010.  The United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Recourses Conservation Services (USDA NCRS), in cooperation with the United States Embassy in the FSM, donated desktop computers to COM-FSM National Campus Agriculture Division on July 1, 2010.

The presentation was made by the US 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 Chair of the Agriculture Division.

Prahar stated 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.  The USDA NCRS has also been providing such services to the Free Associated States of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Republic of Palau.

For more information, please contact Joseph Saimon at:
Telephone: 320-2480, extension 125
Email: jsaimon@comfsm.fm