Penonomé is Looking for 150 Families for the Creation of Sustainable Farms

CAF –development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean– signed a non-reimbursable technical cooperation agreement with the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama (Cciap), through which it contributes to the country’s food security with the creation of sustainable farms, benefiting 150 families located in the town of Toabré, district of Penonomé in the province of Coclé.  The agreement was signed by the CAF representative in Panama, Lucía Meza, and by the president of the CCIAP, Juan Alberto Arias, accompanied by their respective work teams, who exchanged expressions of gratitude for the mutual trust and for the process of necessary negotiations to achieve the agreement.  Meza explained that this is a cooperation of $150,000 that will be disbursed to support the project called “Technical transfers of crops for the creation of sustainable farms for family consumption and to promote small business initiatives.”  “With this initiative we want to train 150 families and provide them with tools and supplies so that they can start their own self-sustaining farm for family consumption and business management for family income, which has a strong impact on the nutrition of children, their growth and psychomotor development, better academic performance, strengthening of the family unit, financial independence of our people through their ventures and economic reactivation in one of the areas of the country that most needs it,” he added.  More on this story at the bottom of this page……………………

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Back to our story above……….For his part, Arias recalled that, for the last three years, the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture of Panama has been promoting the project of self-sustaining farms in this region, located in the north of the province of Coclé.  This year, in strategic alliance with CAF, “we are convinced that we are important players in the social development of the country to which we aspire. Actions such as these support the development of the entrepreneurial spirit that allows these families to move from subsistence to commercialization, because the social development of the country to which we aspire depends directly on us, our actions and our effective contribution to the development of our children, youth and professionals, through education, health and entertainment.” He explained that this program has been expanded so that these 150 families can receive training and have the tools and supplies to implement the correct development of good practices for self-sustaining farms,” ​​Arias said.  The aim of this initiative is to transfer good practices to beneficiary families on the sowing and raising of birds in a self-sustaining manner, to provide the families with the tools and supplies they need to start their own self-sustaining farms, and to provide technical training aimed at awakening the entrepreneurial spirit in these families so that they can move from family consumption to the marketing of their products.  Below a meeting in Penonome regarding the $150,000 for 150 families to provide themselves with a farm business.