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Peru: Producers from Madre de Dios can access a financing program of more than S / 13 million

Peru
Published Jul 27, 2021

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(Agraria.pe) About 500 small producers of Brazil nuts, shiringa, aguaje, and ungurahui will be able to access the Direct Financing Program for Non-Timber Forest Productive Chains in Madre de Dios for the use, processing and commercialization, reported the National Forest Service and Wildlife (Serfor).

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The Program is in force until December 2023 and has a budget of S / 13.3 million, which will be granted through the Agricultural Bank (Agrobanco), for the benefit of producers who take advantage of forest resources other than wood, organized under any form of association, which includes peasant communities and native communities. The program will grant financing of up to S / 30 thousand soles destined to working capital for the exploitation, processing and commercialization of the productive chains of chestnut, shiringa, aguaje and ungurahui that are under the various exploitation modalities granted by the Forest Authority of Madre de Dios. This program promoted by Serfor seeks the reactivation of the local economy, the generation of nearly 4,000 direct and indirect jobs, the sustainable use of approximately 315 thousand hectares of forests and the reduction of ...
Source: Agraria
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