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USDA Seeks Applications for Grants to Help Rural Businesses Produce and Market Value-Added Products

July 21, 2021 By Rural Business

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it is accepting applications for grants to establish and operate Agriculture Innovation Centers.

USDA is making $7.4 million available under the Agriculture Innovation Center Program. Agriculture Innovation Centers may use the grants to provide technical assistance to help agricultural producers develop and market value-added agricultural products using a variety of options, except joint marketing efforts. The centers may provide the following types of assistance:

  • financial advisory services to develop, expand or operate a business owned by an agricultural producer;
  • process development services, such as engineering, production system scale ups, scale production assessments and systems development;
  • organizational assistance, including legal and technical advisory services;
  • outreach assistance;
  • technical assistance for product development, excluding research and development; and
  • technical assistance for applied research to develop and operate processes and systems to produce and market value-added agricultural products.

Eligible applicants include nonprofit and for-profit corporations, public bodies and institutions of higher education. Consortiums are also eligible to apply, but they must select a single organization to represent the consortium as the applicant. Only the applicant organization must meet the eligibility requirements

Recipients must provide matching funds of least one-third of the total project budget. The total project budget must include both grant award and matching funds.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

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