A bill to provide for the establishment of a coordinated program of promotion and research designed to strengthen the position of the pecan industry in the marketplace, to maintain and expand foreign and domestic markets and uses for improved and native pecans and pecan products, and for other purposes.
Pecan Promotion and Research Act of 1989 - Establishes a Pecan Marketing Board to carry out a coordinated program of research and promotion to strengthen the pecan industry's domestic and foreign market position.
Funds such program through an assessment on all pecans produced in, or imported into, the United States.
Provides for a pecan producer referendum of program approval.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 357.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing.
Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. Hearings held.
Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1729 ordered to be reported.
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