Tobacco owed

The Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund has set a Jan. 26 deadline for grant applications from individual producers, community groups and farm support organizations in Alamance, Carteret, Franklin, Granville, Hoke, Jones, Onslow, Robeson, Rockingham and Stokes counties. Grants of up to $10,000 to individuals and $18,000 to groups and organizations will be awarded for proposals with potential to fill the farm income void resulting from lost tobacco revenue in the 10-county region. Projects involving products, services and on-farm resources are eligible, along with new crops and innovative farm-based enterprises. To qualify, producers must be full- or part-time farmers who had a significant amount of their farm income coming from tobacco at the time of the Master Settlement Agreement (crop years 1997 and ‘98). Community groups must include farmers from the target counties and have farmers active in group leadership to qualify.

Posted January 10, 2007 04:17 PM

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