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USDA provided technical assistance and training to help Bulgaria develop the organizational structure necessary to promote a private agricultural economy. These included: sector assessments and training in fruit and vegetable production, processing, and marketing. Training was provided at the farm, intermediate and policy levels. USDA programs also included support to the Ministry of Agriculture to reform the agriculture extension service, to develop an economic research service and to improve the agriculture statistics service. In later years funding was focused on technical assistance and training for food safety and improved animal genetics, technical support (through Iowa State University) for farmers to obtain agricultural loans, Borlaug fellowships in agriculture, and three agricultural trade and investment missions to Bulgaria. In addition, in 2004 and 2005 seven professors from various Bulgarian universities participated in faculty exchange programs in the United States under these programs