Deadline: 20-May-22
The Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops Program (TASC) 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.
The TASC program is administered by personnel of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on behalf of the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
Funding Information
- Total Award Funding: $9,000,000
- Estimated Funding per Award: Funding per award under the TASC program is anticipated to range from $5,000–$500,000
- Period of Performance Start Date(s): 10/01/2022
- Period of Performance End Date(s): 10/30/2027
Eligibility Criteria
- To participate in the TASC program, an entity must be a US organization, either government or private, with a demonstrated role or interest in exporting US 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: US specialty crops. For the purposes of the TASC program, specialty crops are defined as most cultivated plants, or the products thereof, produced in the US except wheat, feed grains, oilseeds, cotton, rice, peanuts, sugar, and tobacco. Proposals may cover more than one US specialty crop.
- Eligible Markets: Proposals may target any foreign market, including single countries or reasonable regional groupings of countries.
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Eligible Activities: To be found eligible for consideration, TASC proposals must address the following criteria:
- Proposals must identify and address an existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barrier that prohibits or threatens the export of commercially available US specialty crops;
- Proposals must demonstrate that the proposed activities will benefit an entire industry rather than a specific company or brand;
- Proposals must include an explanation as to what specifically could not be accomplished without Federal funding assistance and why the eligible organization(s) would be unlikely to carry out the proposal without such assistance; and
- Proposals must include performance measures for quantifying progress and demonstrating results.
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