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Trade Capacity Building and Development

Welcome to The Cochran Fellowship Program Website. The Cochran Fellowship Program (CFP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). It provides U.S.-based agricultural training opportunities for senior and mid-level specialists and administrators from public and private sectors who are concerned with agricultural trade, agribusiness development, management, policy, and marketing.

Our mission is:

To provide training and support to help developing nations improve their agricultural systems and strengthen and enhance trade links with the United States.

The Cochran Fellowship Program has trained over 13,500 Fellows from 121 countries around the world since it's inception in 1984.

This year the Cochran Fellowship Program celebrates its 25th Anniversary.

Cochran Fellowship Program - News and Highlights

+	Greetings to all alumni from the Cochran Fellowship Program! With the launch of the Cochran Fellowship Community on the State Alumni Website, more interest has been garnered in creating a larger community. It is with great pleasure that our colleagues of the Borlaug Fellowship Program, the Faculty Exchange program, and the United States-China Scientific Cooperation Exchange Program will be joining us. Combined with the current Cochran site, the four exchanges will comprise a larger community called the USDA Exchanges Community.
	Writing in Dari, a veterinarian from Afghanistan takes notes on a handful of sheep feed held by Jerry Aldredge of JKA Agricultural Management and Consultation at Double J sheep feedlot on Tuesday morning. The doctors of veterinary medicine are in Colorado to improve their education concerning raising sheep and goats for food, milk, and wool.
	Importance of Cochran Fellowship Program training of Afghanistan veterinarians recognized in Colorado newspaper.
	Representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), along with faculty from Colorado State University, recently welcomed six Afghan veterinarians to the United States to help Afghanistan improve the health of their livestock herds. The Afghans, all of whom hold Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from Afghanistan’s Kabul University, are participants in USDA’s Cochran Fellowship Program.
	USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack meets with Cochran Program Alumni in China to recognize program.