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====Agriculture research and training==== [[File:Agriculture and trade of Honduras (IA agriculturetrade33coyn).pdf|thumb|upright=0.95|Early 20th-century Honduras agricultural brochure]] Samuel Zemurray employed agronomists, botanists, and horticulturists to aid in research studies for United Fruit in their time of crisis, as early as 1915, when the [[Panama disease]] first inhabited crops. Funding specialized studies to treat Panama disease and supporting the publishing of such findings throughout the 1920sβ1930s, Zemurray consistently was an advocate for agricultural research and education. This was first observed when Zemurray funded the first research station of Lancetilla in Tela, Honduras in 1926 and led by Dr. [[Wilson Popenoe]]. Zemurray also founded the [[Zamorano]] Pan-American Agricultural School (Escuela Agricola Panamericana) in 1941 with Dr. Popenoe as the head [[agronomist]]. There were certain requirements before a student could be accepted into the fully paid for 3-year program including additional expenses (room and board, clothing, food, stc), a few being a male between the ages of 18 and 21, 6 years of elementary education, plus an additional 2 years of secondary.<ref name=":24"/> Zemurray, established a policy where, "The School is not for the training or improvement of the company's own personnel, but represents an outright and disinterested contribution to the improvement of agriculture in Spanish America...This was one way in which the United Fruit Company undertook to discharge its obligation of social responsibility in those countries in which it operates-and even to help others."<ref name=":24"/> Zemurray was so intensely adamant in his policy, that students were not allowed to become employees at the United Fruit Company post-graduation.
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