Assistance program
Rice Production Program
$233.2 Million committed in FY2023–FY2026
- Agency
- Farm Service Agency, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Not Applicable
- CFDA number
- 10.976
- What it does
- RPP provides assistance to rice producers that planted or were prevented from planting rice in crop year 2022 in order to offset higher than normal production costs.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- An eligible producer is a person, partnership, association, corporation, estate, trust, or other legal entity that produces rice as a landowner, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper. In addition, to be eligible for RPP, a producer must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership organized under State Law; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State Law; or Indian Tribe or Tribal organization.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 117-328, Section 602
- Program site
- https://www.farmers.gov/ ↗
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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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments