USDA announces additional RAPP funding to expand, diversify export markets

Press release

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture will make an additional $300 million available through the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program to help grow export markets for American farm and food products around the world, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced Monday.

“Access to international markets supports U.S. farmers at home and food security throughout the world,” Torres Small said. “USDA launched RAPP last year as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to create more, new and better markets for U.S. producers and agribusinesses, an...