OpportunityTitle: Specialty Crop Research Initiative/Citrus Disease Research and Extension
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: SCRI/CDRE, applications may be submitted by Federal agencies, national laboratories, colleges and universities, research institutions and organizations, private organizations or corporations, State Agricultural Experiment Stations, Cooperative Extension Services, individuals, or groups consisting of two or more of these entities.
Description: The Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) Citrus Disease Research and Extension Program (CDRE) is authorized in the Agricultural Act of 2014 (H.R. 2642) to award grants to eligible entities to conduct research and extension activities, technical assistance and development activities to: (a) combat citrus diseases and pests, both domestic and invasive and including huanglongbing and the Asian citrus psyllid, which pose imminent harm to United States citrus production and threaten the future viability of the citrus industry; and (b) provide support for the dissemination and commercialization of relevant information, techniques, and technologies discovered pursuant to research and extension activities funded through SCRI/CDRE and other research and extension projects targeting problems caused by citrus production diseases and invasive pests.
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CloseDateExplanation: 1. Complete, error-free Stakeholder Relevance Statements must be received in Grants.gov by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on July 18, 2014. See Section IV, A. for a description of the requirements for the contents of a stakeholder relevance statement. STAKEHOLDER RELEVANCE STATEMENTS ARE MANDATORY FOR ALL SPECIALTY CROP RESEARCH INITIATIVE GRANT APPLICATIONS.  2. Invited full applications must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on September 29, 2014. See Section IV, D. for a description of the requirements for the contents of a full application.