With environmentally friendly local practices, this program supports organized producers with education and training, technical assistance, social organization, commercialization, and transfer of appropriate technologies.
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Learn about Mónica and Paola’s story
Family union makes the difference
Mrs. Mónica and Mrs. Paola, are sisters-in-law, and mothers of two children each. They are also both participants of the Diploma of Voluntary Agricultural Promoters, where they learned to design and implement family gardens and the management of poultry farms. With the knowledge acquired, both managed to provide and cover the basic needs of their households through the harvests of their orchards, and they also managed to obtain income through the marketing and sale of surplus production.
By properly managing their poultry farms they have been able to generate higher incomes and contribute to their household food security. This has allowed them to both improve their economic state from the sales of chickens as well as improve their family’s nutritional health with the addition of chicken protein. Currently, they have the vision of growing their business, which is expected to guarantee the availability and accessibility of food for both their families and the community.
Mónica Marisol Maldonado Miranda
Paola Edelmira López de Maldonado
Program initiatives
4,130 beneficiaries received technical support for their agricultural productions
4,387 beneficiaries established a family garden, improving their production processes
16 coffee producing families obtained the ecological certificate for their exports
3,019 producers were trained to become agricultural promoters
1,019 members of agricultural organizations trained in Open Schools
887 volunteer promoters completed their training to become trainers
1,515 producers administratively and productively strengthened, which increased their commercialization
805 people participated in business and managerial strengthening activities
16 organizations strengthened their social organization
735 members of the organizations participated in commercial activities
185 women and young people start agricultural business initiatives
139 producers linked to 5 export crops
1,642 benefited with technology aimed at increasing their agricultural production
175 works carried out to adapt the established infrastructure and its technical management
89 demonstrative production models established for techniques such as plasticulture or fertilizers