The U.S. Department of Agriculture has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failing to meet contractual obligations to the sellers of produce they purchased and failing to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. These sanctions include suspending the businesses’ PACA licenses and barring the principal operators of the businesses from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce industry:
together with the government. those chemical fertilisers are really depleting the soils and every year they had to use more and the yield of their crops are not getting better. we have an interest in women because in the gambia mostly the gardeners are women. and for us, the work we want to do, we want really to improve the women s life, to empower the women. both parties believe this will promote farmers to be more self sufficient, help reduce waste and tackle soil damage. through the radio programme, we expect the women in the rural area to turn waste to fertiliser. the gambia has a population of over two million. the country s primary industries are agriculture and tourism. the main exports are groundnuts, mangoes and cashew. in a bid to reduce dependency on imported foods and to diversify the farming industry, the government is encouraging this new strategy.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently released the Spring 2022 Unified Agenda of Regulatory Actions, which outlines the rulemaking actions currently under development in.