The grant gives farmers' markets technology to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps, which offers nutrition assistance to millions of low-income people and provides economic benefits to communities, according to USDA. Rogerio Carrasco, the program's coordinator, said it has been a struggle to award the $2,000 grants, which allow markets to "purchase machines that can accept, and networks that can keep track of, SNAP dollars," Agri-Pulse reports. As of May 2012, only 1,500 of the 7,100 markets in the U.S. accepted the electronic benefit transfer payments.
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