National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA)

摘要

Founded in 1915, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan association of public officials comprising the Commissioners, Secretaries and Directors of the 54 U. S. state and territorial departmentsof agriculture. In order to support U.S. food producers in the global marketplace, NASDA is deeply involved in trade promotion activities designed to support exporters of U.S. food and agricultural products. These activities are conducted in close cooperation with U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) by NASDA's four state regional trade associations, Food Export USA, the Southern U.S. Trade Association, the Mid-America International Agri-Trade Council and the Western U.S. Agricultural Trade Association. NASDA also directly sponsors export pavilions at events produced by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) the National Restaurant Association (NRA) and the World Trade Center Miami.