Oriental Fruit Fly Program

Due to an outbreak of Oriental Fruit Flies that damaged fruits and vegetables in Miami-Dade County, the Oriental Fruit Fly (OFF) program provides direct payments assistance to eligible agriculture producers who suffered a revenue loss in 2015 and/or

The purpose of the Oriental Fruit Fly Program is to provide direct payments to eligible agriculture producers in Miami-Dade County who suffered a revenue loss in 2015 and/or 2016 due to a State of Florida and APHIS implemented quarantine, because there was an outbreak of Oriental Fruit Flies that damaged fruits and vegetables in Miami-Dade County. The quarantine, which lasted from August 28, 2015, through February 13, 2016, was necessary and successful in eradicating the Oriental Fruit Fly. Because the Non-Insured Crop Assistance Program (NAP) does not apply in instances of a state or federally declared quarantine and RMA does not offer a quarantine endorsement in Florida, the affected producers in Miami-Dade County needed relief.

Applicants must be a citizen of the United States; resident alien; partnership of citizens of the United States; corporation, limited liability company, or other organizational structure organized under State law, Indian Tribe or Tribal organization. A producer must be in compliance with Highly Erodible Land conservation and Wetland Conservation provisions, commonly referred to as the conservation compliance provisions. A producer's average Adjusted Gross Income may not exceed $900,000, unless at least 75% of income is derived from farming, ranching or forestry operations.

Contact the headquarters for application deadlines.

The assistance will be approved and awarded by FSA to eligible producers. Payments were made to eligible producers in 2022 and 2024. The application period closed April 4, 2022. The payment processing has closed and payments are no longer being processed.

1-30 Days.

Applicants may request reconsideration of a decision by the decision authority or appeal such decisions to a higher authority including the county and State FSA committees and the National Appeals Division. Appeal regulations in 7 CFR parts 11 and 780 apply. OFF eligibility and other matters of general applicability that are not in response to, or result from, an individual set of facts in an individual participant's application for payment are not matters that can be appealed.