USDA announces Farm for Progress grants
August 19, 2014 | 04:42 PM
SOURCE: USDA Foreign Agricultural Services
The Agriculture Department today announced $127 million in Food for Progress funding in developing countries.
The projects include working with the National Cooperative Business Association to improve El Salvador’s coffee sector and with Catholic Relief Services, government ministries and a local university in Nicaragua to improve the cacao agroforestry and livestock sectors in the impoverished eastern coast of the country.