Texas Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program

The purpose of the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program is to build resilience across the middle of the state’s food supply chain for food crops. For this program, "middle of the food supply chain" refers to activities and operations that occur in between post-harvesting of food crops and before food goods are being sold at a store or market, excluding the marketing of food products or services. The RFSI program will offer two grant types, “Equipment-Only” and “Infrastructure” grants, to eligible entities to support the expanded capacity for the aggregation, processing, manufacturing, storing, transporting, wholesaling, and distribution of locally and regionally produced food products, including specialty crops, dairy, grains for human consumption, aquaculture, and other food products, excluding meat and poultry. Eligibility: -Agricultural producers or processors or groups of producers/processors. -Nonprofit organizations operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities. -Local government entities operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities. -Tribal government entities operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities. -Institutions such as schools, universities, or hospitals bringing producers together to establish cooperative or shared infrastructure or invest in equipment that will benefit multiple producers. -For-profit organizations operating middle-of-the-supply-chain activities that meet SBA definitions.