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Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

The purpose of this program is to assist farmers and fishermen successfully adjust to import competition through the provision of technical assistance, cash payments (not to exceed $10,000) and eligibility for certain Department of Labor retraining benefits, including tuition reimbursements for up to two years.

Rating

What This Rating Means

NOT PERFORMING
Results Not Demonstrated

A rating of Results Not Demonstrated (RND) indicates that a program has not been able to develop acceptable performance goals or collect data to determine whether it is performing.
  • The program is costly to administer relative to the number of producers that have been assisted to date.
  • Performance measure baselines and targets are still under development.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Establishing ambitious performance targets.
  • Enhancing program results, by offering a second phase of Intensive Technical Assistance for producers who intend to modify their business practices to better compete with imports.
  • Conducting surveys to track program performance. Modifying basic training to adopt program participants' suggestions from the 2005/06 survey responses.

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