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WSDA Agreement No. K2871 <br />Objective 1: <br />This project will prevent the spread of apple maggot populations in Kittitas County, Washington. <br />-Prnjcct Qeueficiarjcs <br />Estimate the number of project beneficiaries: 150 <br />Does this project directly benefit socially disadvantaged farmers? No <br />Does this project directly benefit beginning farmers? No <br />Statement of Enhancing Specialty Crops <br />By checking the box below, I confirm that this project enhances the competitiveness of specialty crops in accordance <br />with and defined by 7 U.S.C. 1621. Further information regarding the definition of a specialty crop can be found at <br />www.ams,usda.gov/serviees/g1'ants/sc bgp . <br />I confirm the above <br />Cou t;ouat;oo or rrn;cct lg formati on <br />This project is not a continuation of another project. <br />Oth er Suppmt from Fed eral or Stat·e Ptogram s <br />There are no state or federal grant funds other than SCBGP being requested to fund this work. <br />Ex ternol rrn;ec t Support <br />The stakeholders who support this project are Washington State Tree Fruit Association (more than 2000 members), <br />Kittitas County Farm Bureau (growers on over 100,000 acres) and Kittitas Reclamation District (irrigation district <br />supporting 40,000 acres of irrigated cropland). All of these organizations are dedicated to preventing the spread of apple <br />maggot into newly planted and existing commercial orchard systems. Preventing this spread increases the resiliency of <br />Washington apple exports and could open emerging markets with newly planted specialty apples. <br />W orl<nhi ~ <br />Project Activity <br />2020 survey design and survey <br />1 !activities <br />2 Quarterly reports to WSDA <br />3 preventionlco.ntrol activities on <br />-~pp le m aggot <br />4 Annual Reports to WSDA <br />5 final Project Report to WSDA <br />Expected Measurable Outcome<s) <br />Outcome 5, Indicator #1 <br />!Responsible Timeline <br />Party <br />K ittitas 10/2019-09/2020, 10/2020- <br />Cou nty 9/2021, 10/202 1 -9/2022 <br />Kittitas County Every 3 months beginning 12/2019 <br />Kittitas County ~/2020-9/2020, 6/2021-9/2021, <br />KJ/2022-9/2022 <br />Kittitas County Nove mb r 2020 and each <br />subseq uent proje ct year <br />Kittitas County 11/15/2022 <br />Number of new or improved innovation models (biological, economic, business, management, etc.), technologies, <br />networks, products, processes, etc. developed for specialty crop entities including producers, processors, distributors, etc . <br />1 --- <br />Data Collccuou to Report on ou tcomes and Jndjcators <br />Kittitas County will track the location and frequency of surveillance activities, as well as the number of site visits and <br />K2871 Grant Agreement