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improving food and agricultural product distribution

Our Mission
:  To facilitate distribution of U.S. agricultural products, we identify marketing opportunities, provide analysis to help take advantage of those opportunities, and develop and evaluate solutions including improving farmers markets and other direct-to-consumer marketing activities, researching and developing marketing channels, providing information and education, encouraging adoption of improved postharvest technology, and designing market facilities.

The following five cluster areas define our work:

 
bullet Farmers Markets and Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
     
bullet Marketing Channel Research and Development  
     
bullet Marketing Information and Education  
     
bullet Postharvest and Marketing Technology  
     
bullet Wholesale Markets and Facility Design  
     
     
     
bullet State Marketing Profiles  
     
bullet Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP)



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