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| 02-15910 | Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) Inviting Applications for the Value-Added Agricultural Product Market Development Grant Program (VADG) (Independent Producers) | Notice | The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the availability of approximately $33 million in competitive grant funds for fiscal year 2002 to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities. RBS hereby requests proposals from eligible independent producers, agricultural producer groups, farmer or rancher cooperatives, and majority-controlled producer-based business ventures interested in a competitively awarded grant to fund one of the following two activities: (1) Developing feasibility studies or business plans (including marketing plans or other planning activities) needed to establish a viable value-added marketing opportunity for an agricultural product; or (2) acquiring working capital to operate a value-added business venture or an alliance that will allow the producers to better compete in domestic and international markets. In order to provide program benefits to as many eligible applicants as possible, applications can only be for one or the other of these two activities, but not both. Value-added products are defined as follows: (1) A change in the physical state or form of the product (such as milling wheat into flour or making strawberries into jam); (2) the production of a product in a manner that enhances its value, as demonstrated through a business plan (such as organically produced products); (3) the physical segregation of an agricultural commodity or product in a manner that results in the enhancement of the value of that commodity or product (such as an identity preserved marketing system). As a result of the change in physical state or the manner in which the agricultural commodity or product is produced or segregated, the customer base for the commodity or product is expanded and a greater portion of revenue derived from the marketing, processing, or physical segregation is made available to the producer of the commodity or product. Value-added also includes using any agricultural product or commodity to produce renewable energy on a farm or ranch. The maximum award per grant is $500,000. In order to maximize the distribution of program benefits, smaller grant requests under $500,000 will receive priority points. Priority is also being given to projects producing energy from biomass or demonstrating profitable use of innovative technologies. | 2002-06-24 | 2002 | 6 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/06/24/02-15910/notice-of-funds-availability-nofa-inviting-applications-for-the-value-added-agricultural-product | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2002-06-24/pdf/02-15910.pdf | Agriculture Department; Rural Business-Cooperative Service | 12,456 | The Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the availability of approximately $33 million in competitive grant funds for fiscal year 2002 to help independent agricultural producers enter into value-added activities. RBS hereby requests... |