Virginia officials are eagertodevelop new crops in a state where tobacco farming has shrunk dramatically since the 1990s because of declining cigarette sales.
Russia and France, owed billions of dollars for their exports to Iraq in the 1970s and 1980s and with companies eagertodevelop Iraq's oil, have commercial reasons to want the country solvent again.
"We need more people to sell or implement those products for customers, and we are eagerto hire more engineers todevelop more products quickly, " Bansal says.