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{{Short description|Inactive competitive grant program}}
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The '''National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program''', often referred to as the '''National Research Initiative''' ('''NRI''') was a [[United States Department of Agriculture]] (USDA) competitive grant program. 

Grants were made to scientists at both public and private laboratories for [[Basic research|basic]] and [[Applied research|applied]] agricultural research in priority areas as designated in the research title of the [[Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990|1990 farm bill]] (P.L. 101-624, Title XVI), as amended. Grants were awarded competitively through a [[peer review]] process.

The NRI was not reauthorized in the [[Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008|2008 farm bill]].