Assistance program
Assisting Specialty Crop Exports
$31.0 Million committed in FY2024–FY2026
- Agency
- Foreign Agricultural Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.621
- What it does
- ASCE addresses barriers unique to specialty crops exports. It supports projects that advance U.S. specialty crop exports by expanding domestic understanding of foreign food safety systems and foreign understanding of U.S. food safety systems. The initiative will also collect information needed for export certification, and packaging to meet other countries' new requirements.
- Who benefits
- Activities supported through this program generally benefit producers of exported agricultural commodities in the United States. ASCE is especially targeted towards benefiting specialty crops which lack the existing expertise or capacity to export in compliance with the myriad of standards that exists in each potential market.
- Who applies
- State agricultural experiment stations, State cooperative extension services, all colleges and universities, other research or education institutions and organizations, Federal and private agencies and organizations, individuals, and any other organization, whether foreign or domestic. n.b. Individual Notices of Funding Opportunity may be made available to a subset of these organizations.
- Authorized by
- 15 U.S.C. § 714c(f)
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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