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Mar\u2019Kayla Bethea had to balance work with studies when she was an undergraduate student at Alabama A&M University.<\/p>\n

Working at night and going to class during the day wasn\u2019t easy. But she had no choice because she was paying for her education on her own.<\/p>\n

That changed when National Crop Insurance Services awarded her with a scholarship.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt allowed me to complete my undergraduate degree and I am now onto bigger and better things,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Today, she\u2019s studying geographical information systems in graduate school at AAMU.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis money was greatly appreciated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

NCIS has proudly provided scholarships to 18 students at 1890 Land Grant universities to help them complete their education since 2001. The universities have historically served African-American students.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of NCIS\u2019 mission of helping under-served communities in rural America with access to top risk management and marketing training and education to develop the agriculture workforce.<\/p>\n

Bethea\u2019s story, and the stories of others who have benefited from scholarship program, are featured in the latest edition of Crop Insurance Today magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 Crop Insurance Today featured the risk management and marketing training offered through its partnership with 1890 Land Grant universities with a cover story<\/a> last summer.<\/p>\n

The scholarships are important to students who struggle with financial difficulties, said Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Fort Valley State University in Georgia, in the article.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes, this struggle leads them to obtain a full or part-time job off campus and those jobs usually (due to lack of study time) cause their academic performance to fall,\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Dr. Albert E. Essel, Dean, Research Director & 1890 Administrator for the College of Agriculture at Lincoln University thanked NCIS for its continued support of students who will become the next generation of agricultural workers.<\/p>\n

Essel is also involved in the community risk management and marketing training programs NCIS funds across the nation.<\/p>\n

He spoke to a group in South Carolina last summer about marketing.<\/p>\n

Farmers Tony and Belinda Jones of Morning Glory Homestead on Saint Helena Island, S.C., were among the participants. They said the NCIS training was very beneficial.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we did not attend the workshops and conferences like this we would have to research that on our own and might overlook it or skip it or not think it was important. But when you hear it from professionals who have a lot of knowledge in that field, it really hits home,\u201d Belinda Jones said.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the scholarship program in the Crop Insurance Today magazine and watch a video<\/a> about the community training program at\u00a0CropInsuranceInAmerica.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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