NAPA COUNTY will get $500,000 in funding to recruit and train farmers, including those from disadvantaged and underrepresented groups, U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, said.
The grant, through the federal Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP), will boost efforts to develop and maintain skills of farmers in Napa to keep the state’s specialty crops sector competitive, the congressman said in a statement Aug. 23.
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