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USDA Announces Funding Allocations to Promote Food and Agricultural Products Overseas
20.05.2010 12:14 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced funding allocations worth nearly $11 million for 96 activities under three market development programs. The fiscal year 2010 allocations were provided under FAS’s Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (TASC), Quality Samples Program (QSP) and Emerging Markets Program (EMP) to help expand commercial markets for U.S. agricultural exports.
The TASC works to open, retain and expand markets for U.S. specialty crops. Resources are provided to address barriers, including phytosanitary or related technical restrictions that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops. Specialty crops include all cultivated plants and their products, except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar and tobacco.
The QSP helps U.S. organizations supply samples of U.S. agricultural commodities and products to potential foreign buyers to be used in technical assistance projects displaying product quality and proper use as a means to encourage new purchases. The program supports projects that benefit whole industries rather than individual companies. USDA reimburses the costs for procuring and exporting the samples.
The EMP assists U.S. entities in developing, maintaining, or expanding exports of U.S. agricultural commodities and products by funding activities that improve food and rural business systems in emerging markets. For example, the program may be used to support technical assistance that focus on trade capacity building.
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