The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released the list of agricultural organisations that have benefited from funding this year, to help expand commercial markets for overseas exports.
Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack revealed that the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) had provided funding allocations supporting more than 100 organisations' efforts, provided under a number of programmes including the Emerging Markets Programme (EMP), Foreign Market Development Programme (FMD), Market Access Programme (MAP), Quality Samples Programme (QSP) and Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Programme (TASC).
'The President has made expanding US exports a priority and these programmes are an integral part of this plan,' said Mr Vilsack. 'These marketdevelopment programs provide opportunities to organisations working on behalf of America's farmers to expand US exports as part of the President's National Export Initiative.'
For fiscal year 2010, the following was allocated through five different programmes:
- The EMP supported 83 agricultural export promotion projects with funding totalling US$8.3m
- The FMD supported 21 organisations benefiting from funding of US$34.15m
- The MAP allocated some US$197m in cost-share assistance to 66 US non-profit trade organisations.
- The QSP funded 13 groups with US$1.89m.
- The TASC programme allocated more than US$7.3m to 26 organisations.
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