U.S. Rice in Food Aid Already at Record High for FY20
Published Aug 1, 2020
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ARLINGTON, VA – With two months remaining in the federal government’s procurement fiscal year, more than 100,000 MT of U.S. rice has already gone into global feeding programs, including almost 34,000 MT of fortified rice.
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“This is a record amount for U.S. rice going into all three U.S. government food aid programs, Food For Progress (monetization), Food For Education (school feeding), and Food For Peace (Title II PL 480) at this point in the fiscal year,” said Jesica Kincaid, USA Rice manager of international trade policy. “And the largest amount of fortified rice used in global feeding programs overall.” In each of the last three years, 80,000 MT of U.S. rice was used in food aid over the course of the entire fiscal year, including 25,000 MT of fortified rice. Traditionally rice is used most frequently in the U.S. Department of Agriculture school feeding programs but this year has seen wider use of rice in multi-year development and emergency initiatives through the U.S. Agency for International Development Title II programs and two large monetization programs in Sub-Saharan Africa of more than 20,000 MT each. “It has always been the goal of USA Rice to advocate for widespread use of all ...
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