# Foreign Market Development Program

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The **Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program** (**FMDP** or **Cooperator Program**) is one of the agricultural [export promotion](/source/Export_promotion) programs operated by the [United States Department of Agriculture](/source/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture) (USDA) [Foreign Agricultural Service](/source/Foreign_Agricultural_Service). This program is a joint government-agri-industry effort to develop markets by acquainting potential foreign customers with U.S. farm products. Activities under this program include providing technical assistance to prospective foreign buyers, overseas food exhibits, [product demonstrations](/source/Product_demonstration) and advertising aimed at foreign consumers. FAS shares the financing of these projects with the cooperators, which are nonprofit commodity trade associations primarily composed of producer-based farm groups.

## Further reading

- ["Congressional Research Service, *Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs*, April 15, 2008"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110807120842/http://opencrs.com/document/RL33553/2008-04-15/). Archived from [the original](http://opencrs.com/document/RL33553/2008-04-15) on August 7, 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- ["Congressional Research Service, *Agricultural Exports and the 2007 Farm Bill*, October 31, 2007"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719173823/http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34227_20071031.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34227_20071031.pdf) on July 19, 2011. Retrieved 2009-03-24.
- Hanrahan, Charles E. (May 30, 2001). ["IB98006: Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090109052107/http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/agriculture/ag-41.cfm#_1_11). *CRS Issue Brief for Congress*. Congressional Research Service. Archived from [the original](http://ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/agriculture/ag-41.cfm#_1_11) on January 9, 2009. Retrieved June 6, 2010.
- Ulvog, Alfred D.; Wills, Cletis L.; Capone, Ralph A.; Martin, Richard A. (September 1982). *A study of the supervision of the Foreign Market Development Program, Foreign Agricultural Service*. Washington, D.C.: Office of Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. p. 102.

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