The head of the Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) explained that this initiative was born from the State portfolio and its autonomous entities (Instituto Salvadoreño de Transformación Agraria (ISTA), Centro Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal (CENTA), Escuela Nacional de Agricultura (ENA) and the  Banco de Fomento Agropecuario (BFA)), as part of the egalitarian and inclusive vision of the Central Government.

The program's actions and projects will boost agricultural production capabilities through training, technical assistance, legalization and marketing of products; they will also contribute to food and nutritional security, as they will help increase national agricultural production.

The Mujeres y Agricultura Program, in this first stage of the project, will benefit more than 45,000 women and young people, mainly at the national level, through projects for vegetable crops, fruits, tilapia, fishing initiatives, coffee growing, livestock, processed products, among others. According to the projections of the head of MAG, this program will benefit close to 100,000 people.

He also emphasized the credibility of women and young people to improve local production and economy. In addition, they have the dynamic of preserving the environment and soils, where their laborious hands work the land, because the capital of a nation is human talent.

During the launching, a symbolic delivery of 1,500 tilapia fingerlings was made by CENDEPESCA, to promote aquaponics in the cooperative's water bodies, another of the production initiatives with many benefits.

Translated by: A.M