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US crawfish farmers offered federally-backed loans to help deal with drought disaster

While crawfish production has increased in recent months, the industry's numbers remain 'disastrously low' -- Mark Shirley, Louisiana State University's Agriculture Center

By Jason Huffman | March 27, 2024 13:26 GMT
A crawfish harvester gathers up traps from a flooded rice field in Louisiana. Photograph by Jason Huffman.
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The US Small Business Administration (SBA) has swooped in to offer low-interest federal disaster loans to help crawfish farmers and other small businesses in the US state of Louisiana respond to a severe drought that hit the area between Sept. 19 and Dec. 5, 2023.  [...]

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