A total of 1,567 marginalized small farmers and fishers (MSFF) from the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales received SURE COVID-19 aid under the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC)’s SURE COVID-19 emergency loan program. The New Rural Bank of San Leonardo (NRBSL), Guagua Rural Bank (GR Bank), GM continue reading : Central Luzon farmers, fishers receive SURE COVID-19 aid amid virus lockdown

In support of Agriculture Secretary William Dar’s advocacy to modernize Philippine agriculture by engaging youth in agribusiness, and in response to the challenges brought by the quarantine restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Credit Policy Council (DA-ACPC) is digitizing the implementation of the Kapital Access for Young Agriprenuers (KAYA) loan program continue reading : DA-ACPC digitizes implementation of KAYA loan program for the youth

The Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC), through its Expanded SURE Aid and Recovery Project or SURE-COVID-19, released a total of P10.12 million loan funds to 405 marginalized small farmers and fishers (MSFFs) in Region X whose incomes were affected by the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) amid pandemic. The DA-ACPC has tapped five (5) continue reading : DA-ACPC distributes loans to 405 farmers, fishers in Northern Mindanao

The Expanded SURE Aid and Recovery Project or SURE COVID–19, a program of the Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Credit Policy Council (DA-ACPC) disbursed a total of P14.95 million in loans to 576 marginalized small farmers and fishers (MSFFs) in Davao region. Of the P14.95M, P11.53M credit funds were distributed to the Sarangani Development Cooperative continue reading : SURE COVID-19 aids Davao farmers, fishers affected by ECQ

The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) resumed its monthly conduct of flag ceremony on June 15, 2020 via online video conferencing, three months after the imposition of lockdown due to the rising cases of COVID-19. ACPC officers and staff from the central office comprising of the skeleton workforce and work-from-home staff as well as the continue reading : ACPC HYMN

The DA-ACPC, through its SURE COVID-19 Loan Program, offers a loan facility to individuals, groups, Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), micro and small enterprises (MSEs) engaged in agriculture and fisheries who need financial capital. As we are still under community quarantine due to COVID-19, all interested OFW-borrowers are encouraged to use this online application for DA-ACPC continue reading : Online Application for SURE COVID-19 Loan Program

The Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Credit Policy Council (DA-ACPC) has tapped 8 partner lending conduits covering 12 municipalities in Benguet to implement its SURE for Cut Flower Farmers, granting zero-interest loans amounting to a total of Php 32.5 million to 1,300 small cut flower farmers in the province as of May 6, 2020. The continue reading : DA-ACPC disburses loans for cut flower farmers amid quarantine

An initial P700,000 loan funds have been disbursed by the Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Credit Policy Council’s (DA-ACPC) partner lending conduit in the province of Misamis Occidental benefitting 28 marginalized and small farmers and fisherfolk (MSFF). The Paglaum Multi-Purpose Cooperative (PMPC), DA-ACPC’s partner lending conduit in the province released the said loans in Tangub, continue reading : SURE COVID-19 assists Misamis Occidental farmers and fishers

An initial amount of P8 million was disbursed to 320 marginal and small farmers and fishers (MSFF) from Occidental Mindoro under the SURE COVID-19 Program of the Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC). Each farmer- and fisher-borrower received a no-interest, no collateral loan worth P25,000 which they will pay in continue reading : SURE COVID-19 rolls out in Occidental Mindoro

Marginalized and small farmers and fishers (MSFF) in Aklan, whose livelihoods were affected by the lockdown due to the rising cases of Covid 19, receive P25,000 loan under the SURE COVID-19 program. Said financial assistance has no interest, no collateral and is payable in 10 years. The Integrated Barangays of Numancia MPC (IBONMPC), the Department continue reading : Aklan farmers and fishers receive financial assistance amid COVID-19 pandemic