The USDA has awarded Bridgestone a $35 million climate-smart grant to invest in the desert shrub guayule in order to increase natural rubber production in the United States
The US Department of Agriculture has awarded Bridgestone Americas a $35 million climate-smart grant to invest in thein order to increase natural rubber production in the United States and provide growers with a crop that is more environmentally friendly while also tackling the ongoing water crisis in the Southwest.
The USDA Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities was established to enhance markets for American climate-smart commodities, leverage the greenhouse gas reductions from climate-smart commodity production, and offer direct, significant benefits to production agriculture, including to small and underserved producers. In the first round of funding for the partnership for climate-smart commodities, Bridgestone received the $35 million grant.
Along with Bridgestone, the University of Arizona, Colorado State University, OpenET, Environmental Defense Fund, Tohono O’odham Nation, Colorado River Indian Tribes, and eight local growers are all partners in the $35 guayule climate-smart grant.
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