United States Department of Agriculture Announces Emergency Loan Assistance for Mississippi Counties

[Washington, D.C.] – The United States Department of Agriculture and Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (MS02) announces 37 counties, with farmland in Mississippi, as disaster designation areas after suffering from a drought lasting more than eight weeks. This allows Mississippi Farmers, in the primary counties, eight months to apply and be considered for the Farm Service Agency emergency loan assistance.

The Mississippi 2^nd Congressional District has 12 counties that could receive the Farm Service Agency emergency loan assistance if requirements are met.

Mississippi Counties include Bolivar, Kemper, Quitman, Calhoun, Lafayette, Sunflower, Chickasaw, Lauderdale, Tunica, Clarke, Oktibbeha, Webster, Coahoma, Panola, Yalobusha, Choctaw, Lee, Neshoba, Tate, Clay, Leflore, Newton, Union, DeSoto, Lowndes, Noxubee, Washington, Grenada, Marshall, Pontotoc, Wayne, Humphreys, Monroe, Tallahatchie, Winston, Jasper, and Montgomery.