Strategies for Rural Small Business Growth and Expansion

Event description

Rural small and medium sized businesses are an integral part of local economies and communities and essential to our nation’s prosperity. They generate employment, create wealth that stays in the community, and contribute to both economic andleadership development.

No and low-cost resources available to rural businesses include:

• Business planning assistance
•  Support for accessing working capital to support domestic and/or foreign sales
• A grant program that can help open

or expandglobal marketopportunities

• Customized market research
•  Credit guarantees to encourage financing of commercial exports of U.S. agricultural products
• Website globalization