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Successful Pilot Program to Help Farmers Replace Lost Tobacco Income

Agricultural Reinvestment: A Producer Cost-Share Program. 2001
30-page report on the enterprise cost-share program which supported 17 demonstration projects in six major tobacco-producing counties in eastern North Carolina. The program provided grants to individual producers and communities for research and development into enterprises with potential to supplement or replace tobacco income. The program allowed farmers and communities to test out their own ideas for increasing agricultural income from non-tobacco sources. Cost: $10.00

Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Fund Video. 2001
19-minute standard VHS video portrays 17 research and demonstration projects supported by cost-share program to supplement or replace tobacco income in six major tobacco-producing counties in North Carolina. Available for purchase or loan. Upon return of the video, $6.00 will be refunded. Cost: $12.50

Send orders to:

Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI-USA), PO Box 640, Pittsboro NC 27312.
Telephone: 919-542-1396; Fax: 919-542-0069; email: info@rafiusa.org.
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