The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, Global Programs, announces this funding opportunity to support the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program by issuing new awards.
Donor Name: Foreign Agricultural Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5-10 Years
Details:
This opportunity is available to U.S. entities to provide 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 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.
Funding Information
- Total Available Federal Funding: Anticipated to be $9 million.
- Funding per award under TASC is limited to a maximum of $500,000 per year.
Project Period
- Projected Period of Performance Start Date(s): 10/01/2024
- Projected Period of Performance End Date(s): 09/30/2030
Eligible Activities
To be found eligible for consideration, TASC applications must address the following criteria:
- Applications must identify and address an existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barrier that prohibits or threatens the export of commercially available U.S. specialty crops; and
- Applications must demonstrate that the proposed activities will benefit an entire industry rather than a specific company or brand;
Eligibility Criteria
To participate in the TASC program, an entity must be a U.S. organization, either government or private, with a demonstrated role or interest in exporting U.S. agricultural specialty crops. 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.
- Eligible Commodities
- The TASC program is only open to U.S. specialty crops. For the purposes of the TASC program, specialty crops are defined as most cultivated plants, or the products thereof, produced in the U.S. except for wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco. Applications may cover more than one U.S. specialty crop.
- Eligible Markets
- Applications may target any foreign market, including single countries or reasonable regional groupings of countries.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.