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The Rural Development Administration (RDA) was a USDA agency established by the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Sec. 2302), amending the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), to administer FmHA community and business programs and other USDA rural development programs.
The USDA Farm to School Grant Program is funded through the use of grants by the USDA, with 2019 seeing nearly $10 million awarded supporting 3.2 million students in over 5,400 schools across 42 states. [12] The program also seeks to encourage young children to pursue careers related to the creation and distribution of food supplies.
The Rural Housing Service (RHS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Located within the Department's Rural Development mission area. RHS operates a broad range of programs to provide moderate- low- and very-low-income Americans in rural communities with:
The USDA identifies these groups to include, but not be limited to, African Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives, Asians, Hispanics, and Pacific Islanders. [5] For the purposes of loan eligibility, section 355(e) of the Con Act [ 6 ] adds gender to the definition of a socially disadvantaged group.
The state with the lowest rural median household income was Mississippi ($40,200). Among rural areas, poverty rates varied from a low in Connecticut (4.6 percent) to a high in New Mexico (21.9 percent). [12] About 13.4 million children under the age of 18 live in rural areas of the nation. [12]
(The Center Square) – Two Wisconsin businesses have obtained a total of more than $375,000 in rural development grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund water loans and a company ...
The second and third standards adjust the scale of distance and factor income to define a food desert. In the US, a food desert is a low-income census tract residing at least 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in urban areas (10 miles (16 km) in rural areas), or 1 mile (1.6 km) away in urban areas (20 miles in rural areas) from a large grocery store. [9]
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes agricultural trade and production, works to assure food safety, protects natural resources, fosters rural communities and works to end hunger in the United States and internationally.