Peru Financing Program Tender

Initiative will help boost the countrys economy. It is expected to benefit about 3300 small forest producers.More than 30000 direct and indirect jobs will be generated through the Financing Program for Forest Plantations reported the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation MIDAGRI through the National Forest and Wildlife Service SERFOR. During the webinar Direct Financing Program for Forest Plantations the Director of Promotion and Competitiveness Marco Llanos said that this amount of jobs will be given by the use and transformation of timber products from the financed plantations. The program which will be in force until December 2023 will have a financing of S 50 million and it is estimated to have a scope of approximately 16500 hectares of forest plantations. With the jobs that are generated it will help boost the countrys economy affected by the COVID-19 pandemic he added. He commented that people to access this initiative must have their forest plantations registered in the National Registry of Plantations administered by SERFOR up to a maximum of 10 hectares. In addition to not having outstanding debts with AGROPERU nor a sanctioning process by the Agency for the Supervision of Forest Resources and Wild Fauna OSINFOR. It should be noted that the program which will benefit about 3300 small forest producers will provide financing as working capital for small producers in two levels of credits the first of up to S 42 thousand and the second maximum of S 142 thousand. For his part Federico Yepes specialist of the SERFOR Forestry Program referred to the National Registry of Plantations which serves to systematize information on forest plantations at the national level. In this regard he argued that among its benefits is access to formal buyers for direct sales as well as economic improvements for the sale of wood and the use of these plantations as financial guarantees. This financing program was managed by SERFOR within the framework of Supreme Decree No. 004-2020-MINAGRI that restructures the AGROPER Fund and approved by this Board of Directors. The AGROPER Fund was created in 2009 and for the first time small producers in forest plantations organized under any associative form contemplated in current regulations are included as beneficiaries.