The International Society for Plant Pathology promotes the world-wide development
of plant pathology and the dissemination of knowledge
about plant diseases and plant health management.
Our Journal Food
Security:The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food
Production and Access to Food.
The International Society for
Plant Pathology Congratulates the United
States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
on its 150th Anniversary on May 15 2012.
Established less than
20 years after Potato Late Blight
devastated crops in Europe and North
America, the USDA has played a seminal
role in leading the fight against plant
diseases.
On May 15, 1862,
President Lincoln established the (US)
Department of Agriculture. The purpose
of the department was to acquire and
diffuse among the people of the United
States useful information on subjects
connected with agriculture in the most
general and comprehensive sense of that
word, and to procure, propagate, and
distribute among the people new and
valuable seeds and plants.
