Government Grants within the United States Agricultural Sector
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to provide assistance to farmers, ranchers, and other private landowners and managers.

All of these agencies, among others, have developed programs and grants that could help achieve their primary causes. There are hundreds of grants out there which are aimed at consumers, producers, universities, research institutions, and other agriculture-related initiatives.

The grants offered by the various agencies are of different nature and objective, but all of them are inadvertently created to support and sustain the needs of the agriculture industry.

The Small Socially-Disadvantaged Producer Grant (SSDPG), one of the very many grants offered by the USDA, is intended to provide technical assistance to small, socially-disadvantaged agricultural producers through eligible cooperatives and cooperative development centers.

Meanwhile, grants like the Pacific Islands Area Conservation Innovation Grant, funded by the National Resources Conservation Services, are aimed at stimulating the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies with regards to agriculture-related perspectives.

The grants offered within the agriculture sector are varied, comprehensive, and all directed towards expanding, improving, and supporting the agricultural industry.

To know more about the aforementioned grants, you can visit the Topgovernmentgrants Agriculture sector at http://www.topgovernmentgrants.com/grants_gov_activity_search_results.php?activity=AG.

Government Grants within the United States Agricultural Sector
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About The Author Michael Saunders is an editor of TopGovernmentGrants.com one the the most comprehensive Websites offering information on government grants and federal government programs. He also maintains Websites providing resources on environmental grants and grants for youth programs.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences
NASA has recently established the Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) program for the year 2011, which encourages interested institutions to submit proposals that involve ground-based research and technology investigations that seek to comprehend naturally occurring phenomena, both in the Earth and in space.

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Department of Agriculture: Value Added Producer Grants
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.

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National Endowment for the Humanities: National Digital Newspaper Program
The goal of the National Digital Newspaper Program is to crate a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between the years 1836 and 1922, from all of the States and its territories.

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Grants From The Department Of The Interior
The United States gives great importance to the natural resources of the country, including federal lands and cultural heritage and native tribal communities. In fact, the federal government has constituted an independent agency that would be responsible for the management and conservation of these resources.

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