Technical Assistance For Specialty Crops Program

The Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service Technical Assistance For Specialty Crops Program is a civilian sub-agency function that provides federal grant funding to support technical assistance initiatives for specialty crop producers and exporters. The program operates as a grant-making entity rather than a contract procurement office.

Grant activity at the program is minimal and inactive. The portfolio records one grant award, a Cooperative Agreement obligating $210 thousand, issued on May 15, 2019. No grant awards have been recorded since that date—a gap of over seven years. The single recipient was a distinct organization, indicating no repeat funding relationships within the recorded portfolio. The program's grant-making cadence has stalled, with no activity year-to-date in 2026 and no recorded opportunities in recent solicitation cycles.

This stasis suggests the program may be dormant, operating under a non-recurring or multi-year cooperative structure from the 2019 award, or shifting its technical-assistance delivery through alternative mechanisms not captured in recent grant rollups. Business development professionals evaluating grant pursuit at this program should treat it as inactive unless direct outreach to the Foreign Agricultural Service confirms resumption of solicitation activity.