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2023-04: Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops

Closed Closed May 20, 2022 Opportunity 2023-04 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$500,000
• Award floor$1
• Total funding$9.0 million
• Expected awards20
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeGrant

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Any U.S. organization, government or private, with a demonstrated role or interest in exporting U.S. agricultural specialty crops may apply to the program. Government organizations consist of Federal, State, and local agencies. Private organizations may include non–profit trade associations, universities, agricultural cooperatives, state regional trade groups, and private companies. Foreign organizations, whether government or private, may participate as third parties in activities carried out by eligible organizations, but are not eligible for direct funding assistance through the program.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program awards averaged $36,249; this notice allows up to $500,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (100% over five years) went to individuals.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (TASC) is designed to assist U.S. organizations by providing funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops. The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).

Category: Agriculture.

Applying now

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