STATE OF NEW YORK
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6489
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Agriculture
AN ACT to amend the agriculture and markets law, in relation to assist-
ance with aggregating, processing and transporting agricultural
products for producers and processors
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-b of section 16 of the agriculture and
2 markets law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
3 (d) Provide, in cooperation with Cornell cooperative extension, the
4 department of economic development and other resources, technical
5 assistance, to small scale producers and processors of agricultural
6 products who are interested in coordinating with each other to aggre-
7 gate, process and transport agricultural products with the goal of sell-
8 ing such products in sufficient quantities to meet the demands of food
9 businesses and institutional buyers, and identify and disseminate infor-
10 mation to provide to such producers and processors on federal, state and
11 private grant or other assistance programs with the purpose of assisting
12 and supporting such coordination. The assistance provided under this
13 paragraph may also be included as part of the procurement training
14 programs authorized in subdivision two-d of this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10502-01-9
