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for Profitable Agriculture
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Project
Application: Criteria for Proposed Projects
The
Center for Profitable Agriculture (CPA)
is committed to increasing the value of Tennessee's economy through
new, expanded and improved processing and marketing of agricultural,
aquacultural and forestry products in Tennessee.
For
a project to be considered by CPA, an application form must be submitted.
The application form can be obtained on this Web site by clicking
"Project Application." Applicants can choose to fill out
the Online Application Form
and submit it electronically, or they may select the Printable
Application Form and mail it to the Center. Either format is
perfectly acceptable.
Because
of the number of requests the Center has received, it has become
necessary to screen applications. Our faculty, who will be working
directly with the Center's projects, have developed primary and
secondary criteria that acceptable projects must meet.
Primary criteria required of projects:
The product must
have a relationship to Tennessee agriculture,
aquaculture or forestry products.
The end product
must be produced in Tennessee.
The project must
be within the Center's capabilities and resources
The project must
contain a value-added product/service.
Secondary
criteria required of projects:
Adequate information
must be in the application to appropriately
evaluate the project.
Preliminary investigations
must indicate that the project is technically
feasible.
Adequate financial/technical
resources must be available to take
a project to completion.
The
project should offer economic impact potential.
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