USDA Announces $70 Million Seafood Purchase Due to COVID-19 Market Impacts
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue provided details for a purchase of $470 million, $70 million of which is seafood products, in Section 32 food purchases to occur in the third quarter of the fiscal year 2020, allowing the government to purchase surplus food brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The purchases are meant to support both food producers and Americans in need as the USDA responds to changes in markets for seafood producers due to the coronavirus...
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