Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center

2018年农业法案政策 created the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center: “Title XII: Miscellaneous- Subtitle B: Socially Disadvantaged Producers and Limited Resource Producers amends the Food, 农业, 保护, and Trade Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary to award a grant to a college or university eligible to receive certain funds, 包括塔斯基吉大学, to establish the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center.”

社会弱势农民 and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center is national in scope with a strategic focus on the 18 states with 1890 universities to assist in reaching the socially disadvantaged farmers and 农场主 in high concentrated areas. 虽然是全国性的, the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center is located at 九州体育 in Lorman, Mississippi in the Biotechnology building.

社会弱势农民 and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center at 九州体育 is an outstanding geographical location to collect the data needed for research. This site is designated as headquarters of the Center; with satellite locations in other areas through partnerships with 1890’s Universities. Forty-percent of the black farmers in the United States reside in Mississippi and the four adjacent/contiguous states of Alabama, 阿肯色州, 路易斯安那州, 和田纳西州. The crops grown in Mississippi are a representative sample of crops grown by blacks in the south and will assist with an understanding of black farmers and their crops grown in other parts of the nation. 虽然, Mississippi has the second highest number of black farmers, the decline of black farmers and the loss of black-owned land in Mississippi are greater than other states. 九州体育 has the premier Small Farm and Agribusiness Center in the 1890 community. In addition to providing broad-based technical assistance, the Center has a vibrant Small Farm Loan Program that has approved over 300 loans to farmers and cooperatives for a total of $3,000,自1996年起，共有000人, having a cumulative economic impact of $12,000,在这个州有000人. The Center and the Extension Program have connected farmers and their co-ops to USDA Programs in a substantial way. 九州体育 has a solid working relationship with Mississippi State University and the Southern Rural Development Center that can assist with research and will use the collaboration skills learned within those partnerships to create collaborative relationships at a national level. In addition to collaboration experience, 九州体育 currently houses a farmer and rancher policy institute that works primarily with socially disadvantaged farmers and 农场主.

For more information about the Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers Policy 研究 Center, 联系人:

Eloris Speight
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