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USDA-FAS-10621-0750-10-24-0006: Assisting Specialist Crop Exports: Provision of MRL Information

Closed Closed October 18, 2024 Opportunity USDA-FAS-10621-0750-10-24-0006 ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$2.5 million
• Total funding$2.5 million
• Expected awards1
• 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)

See Section C of the funding opportunity announcement for eligibility information.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Assisting Specialty Crop Exports awards averaged $2.4 million; this notice allows up to $2.5 million per award.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

U.S. Specialty Crop producers feed the United States and the world with nutritious fruits, nuts, herbs, and vegetables. Yet, U.S. specialty crop producers face many unique barriers to successfully exporting their high-value products to international markets. Specialty crops are disproportionately affected by maximum residue limit (MRL) related trade barriers, including residue tolerances of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. Differences among registration systems, monitoring, and inspection programs, and the values of MRLs across different markets pose a significant difficulty for trade of these products. Exporters can be limited in access to markets where an MRL is set lower than their domestic market or where an MRL is absent. Missing or restrictive MRLs force producers to either discontinue use of best practices or modify their use pattern in such a way as to make them ineffective. Missing MRLs are a particular problem for specialty crops as many do not have established Codex Alimentarius (Codex) MRLs, and there are differences in registration assessments and data requirements across countries when establishing national MRLs.

Category: Agriculture.

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