Objective

Strengthen domestic food production through the provision of technical, financial and logistical support to small, medium and large producers, mainly in the vegetable items (corn, rice, soybean, sunflower, vegetables, potatoes, sugar cane, coffee and cocoa); livestock (chicken, egg, pork, milk, goats, sheep and beef); Fisheries and Aquaculture (tuna, shrimp).

Components

• Technical support: The program provides technical assistance to producers in order to encourage increased agricultural production.
• Financial support for the acquisition of inputs and machinery: The program provides soft loans for the acquisition of agricultural machinery, seeds, fodder and inputs to encourage increased agricultural production.

Achievements

• Increased domestic production of food by 10.61% from 22,690,189 tons in 2012 to 25,097,618 tons in 2013.
• Establishing 31,105 units of production (28,433 families, 650 community units, 1,600 schools and 422 institutional).
• Production of 938 020 kilograms of pesticide-free food in an area of 242,758 square meters.
• Distribution of 8.8 million tons of agricultural chemicals, 19 million kilograms of seeds and 600,000 tons of fertilizer.
• 58,000 farmers received loans to finance the planting of 557,615 hectares.

Small, medium and large producers, mainly producing the following: vegetables (corn, rice, soybean, sunflower, vegetables, potatoes, sugar cane, coffee and cocoa); livestock (chicken, egg, pork, milk, goats, sheep and beef); Fisheries and Aquaculture (tuna, shrimp).

Nacional

Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Agricultura y Tierras

Decreto 1.409/2014

Gaceta oficial Nº 39.923