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Show cause of the increased commitment commit-ment of volunteers in India. The USU county extension agents are assisting with the recruting in Utah. Persons interested in-terested in obtaining more information in-formation on the Peace Corps agricultural program in India should get in touch with the USU county extension office. 1 Peace Corps to send 500 more people to India The Peace Corps plans to send an additional 500 agricultural agricul-tural workers, making a total of more than 1,600 volunteers serving two years in famine-threatened famine-threatened India, extension agent with Utah State Uni-versiy, Uni-versiy, announced this week. He said the Peace Corps proposes pro-poses to have 1,000 new agricultural agri-cultural workers at work on food production and related projects in India by January 1. Plans to send the first group of 500 were announced last month by Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in New Dehli. India In-dia now has nearly 700 Peace Corpsmen, Vaughn said that most of the entire volunteer force in India would be involved in some aspect of food production, marketing or nutrition. The India In-dia agricultural projects will be divided into two complementary complemen-tary programs involving work in "intensive agricultural production" pro-duction" and "applied nutrition." nutri-tion." The drive to recruit farm workers, originally scheduled to end this month, will be continued con-tinued through the summer be- |