In the last three years, the Special Fund for Agricultural Development (FEDA) has benefited more than 24 thousand women, through the Madres del Campo program, with an investment of RD$18,795,250, revealed yesterday the executive director, the economist Hecmilio Galván.
He indicated that the initiative seeks to raise the socioeconomic conditions of women entrepreneurs, through training, organization, delivery of inputs and technical and financial assistance.
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“Between 2022 and May 2025, Mothers of Campo carried out 231 activities with producers, including 161 training sessions and 70 project launches, as well as the delivery of 81,000 laying pullets, 148 sheep, 24 padrotes and 6,285 agricultural tools,” Galván explained.
He added that the beneficiaries participate in training in the agricultural and service areas: planting food crops, raising farm animals (sheep, goats, birds, rabbits), marketing of foodstuffs, processing of fruits and vegetables and promoting small productive enterprises.
“Madres del Campo has contributed with the construction and improvement of infrastructure for the installation of productive units that serve to transform raw materials into finished products, such as sweets, jams, cheeses, breads, cassava, ice cream, juices and condiments,” he added during the National Seminar for the Presentation of Results of the Promotion Program. Entrepreneurship of Rural Women (Mothers of the Country).
