Foreign Market Development Program

The Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (FMDP or Cooperator Program) is one of the agricultural export promotion programs operated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service. This program is a joint government-agri-industry effort to develop markets by acquainting potential foreign customers with U.S. farm products. Activities under this program include providing technical assistance to prospective foreign buyers, overseas food exhibits, product demonstrations and advertising aimed at foreign consumers. FAS shares the financing of these projects with the cooperators, which are nonprofit commodity trade associations primarily composed of producer-based farm groups.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from Jasper Womach, Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition, Congressional Research Service, https://web.archive.org/web/20110810044532/http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/05jun/97-905.pdf 

Further reading

• "Congressional Research Service, Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs, April 15, 2008". http://opencrs.com/document/RL33553/2008-04-15. 
• "Congressional Research Service, Agricultural Exports and the 2007 Farm Bill, October 31, 2007". http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34227_20071031.pdf. 
• Hanrahan, Charles E. (May 30, 2001). "IB98006: Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs". CRS Issue Brief for Congress. Congressional Research Service. http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/agriculture/ag-41.cfm#_1_11. 
• Ulvog, Alfred D.; Wills, Cletis L.; Capone, Ralph A.; Martin, Richard A. (September 1982). A study of the supervision of the Foreign Market Development Program, Foreign Agricultural Service. Washington, D.C.: Office of Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. pp. 102.