{"id":527990,"date":"2010-04-14T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2010-04-14T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T01:00:06","slug":"usda-announces-funding-to-enhance-market-based-approaches-to-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527990","title":{"rendered":"USDA Announces Funding To Enhance Market-Based Approaches To Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 6pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8740\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px;\" title=\"usda\" src=\"http:\/\/itecsinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/usda.jpg\" alt=\"usda\" width=\"75\" height=\"53\" \/>(USDA, April 7, 2010) The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the availability of approximately $25 million in fiscal year 2010 to fund projects designed to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies through its Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) in fiscal year 2010. \u00a0\u00a0&#8221;USDA&#8217;s investment in these grants will advance our goal of producing long-term dividends in environmental enhancement and protection,&#8221; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. &#8220;The grants will assist producers in using market-based approaches to conservation and innovative technologies that can put conservation on the land.&#8221; \u00a0USDA will use these competitive grants to seek creative solutions to assist producers with emerging and traditional agricultural and natural resource issues. In addition to market-based approaches to conservation, emerging issues include energy conservation, specialty crops, and new methods of tackling climate change. The grants also will fund solutions to improve water, soil and air quality, improve nutrient management, and enhance wildlife habitat and pollinator populations. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) administers CIG.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usda.gov\/wps\/portal\/!ut\/p\/_s.7_0_A\/7_0_1OB?contentidonly=true&amp;contentid=2010\/04\/0172.xml\" >Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(USDA, April 7, 2010) The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the availability of approximately $25 million in fiscal year 2010 to fund projects designed to stimulate the development and adoption of innovative conservation approaches and technologies through its Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) in fiscal year 2010. \u00a0\u00a0&#8221;USDA&#8217;s investment in these grants will advance our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}