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The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service has said that it is still accepting proposals for three of its export market development programmes.

Applications for the Emerging Markets Program, the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program and the Quality Samples Program will be accepted until Fiscal Year 2015 funds are exhausted.

The Emerging Markets Program supports technical assistance for the promotion of US farm products in emerging markets, the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops program helps open, retain and expand markets for US specialty crops, and the Quality Samples Program helps the country's agricultural trade organisations provide product samples to potential importers by funding purchases of product and shipping.

All proposals received by 3 April 2015, will be reviewed concurrently by the FAS, and proposals received after that date will be reviewed if funding is still available.