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WNC
AgOptions announces 2010 funding cycle:
Mountain farmers eligible for funds to diversify operations
Grants
totaling $225,000 are available to western North Carolina farmers
who are diversifying or expanding their operations in 2010. WNC
Agricultural Options, which will award approximately 45 farmers in
17 counties and the Cherokee Reservation $3,000, $6,000 or $9,000
each.
Managed
by the N.C. Cooperative Extension County Centers in the West
District, the WNC AgOptions program works with producers who
demonstrate ways to increase farm income to other transitioning
farmers, particularly tobacco growers. WNC AgOptions works in
partnership with RAFI-USA’s Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund,
and the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission sponsors the program.
Interested applicants should see the agricultural agents at their
local Extension Centers by November 23, and can visit
www.wncagoptions.org to download an application. Projects
should increase the sale of farm products and lead to the long-term
sustainability of the farm business. The postmark deadline for
applications is January 8.
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