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Farmers to receive benefits that will help ensure food security
In order to guarantee salvadoran families the consumption of basic grains, vegetables, fruits and other crops, congressmen reformed, with 73 votes, the Special and Transitory Provisions to combat inflation in the prices of agricultural inputs.
56,000 quintals of cocoa produced by El Salvador in the last 4 years
3,200 hectares of land have been used to produce 56,000 quintals of cocoa in the last 4 years in El Salvador. Of all this production some 1,500 quintals of cocoa were exported to countries such as France, Italy, Belgium and the United States.
US$ 1.497 million in seed capital has been delivered to war veterans
In the fifth installment, 112 beneficiaries received seed capital funds of US$ 3,000 each, as part of the program "Strengthening, establishment and development of agricultural projects", executed by the Centro Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal (CENTA) and the Instituto Administrador de los Beneficios y Prestaciones Sociales de los Veteranos y Excombatientes (INABVE).
More than 45 thousand women and youth will benefit from agro-productive programs
The optimal development of women and youth to achieve economic autonomy and empowerment through the agricultural sector is one of the purposes of the Mujeres y Agricultura Program, launched today by the minister of Agriculture and Livestock, Oscar Guardado, at the Cooperativa Llano Largo, in Sonsonate.
MAG expects to produce 260,000 quintals of corn by the end of the year
The Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, through the Dirección General de Economía Agropecuaria (DEGA) and with the technical support of specialists from the Centro Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria y Forestal (CENTA), began the delivery of 5,200 Agricultural Packages of corn to be cultivated in areas where moisture accumulated in recent weeks.