Credits To The ACPC On Its 34th Anniversary!

The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) is not preparing to celebrate its 34th anniversary tomorrow, 25 April 2021? Nonetheless, here is my congratulatory note: From what I learned since 2012: ACPC, you are credible, creditable, incredible!

The Executive Director of ACPC today is Jocelyn Alma R Badiola. Here she is with an undated message on the ACPC website[1]:

The ACPC strives for continued improvement in our information and communication strategy, of which the ACPC Website (www.acpc.gov.ph) is an important component. The use of the Internet in attaining widespread dissemination of information is inarguably the most efficient and effective means today.

Yes Ma'am, as an old blogger I agree.

But I have a reservation about your publication titled Agri Finance Magazine. Your latest is the January-June 2020 issue. The last 2020 issue is not yet out, and as an Editor In Chief in the last 45 years, with digital skills that include writing, editing, photography, desktop publishing, I am now volunteering to help produce your July-December 2020 issue – just send me the materials: texts and images. Give me 2 weeks to finish.

I happen to know about the ACPC anniversary because I was hired to produce the coffee-table book The Filipino Farmer Is Bankable in celebration of the ACPC Silver Anniversary on 25 April 2012 by then-Executive Director Jovita Corpuz. It was a labor of love.

What the ACPC has been doing I know is a labor of love. Institutionally, it has been busy:

"ACPC Releases SURE Loan To 500 Cut Flower Farmers In Atok, Benguet” (08 May 2020) – Earlier today, the Department of Agriculture (DA)-Agricultural Credit and Policy Council (ACPC) commenced the releasing of Survival and Recovery (SURE) loans to 500 cut flower farmers in Atok being catered by the Topdac Multipurpose Cooperative (MPC) in km 32, Topdac, Atok, Benguet.

“KAYA Loan Program Kicks Off In Ilocos Norte” (03 April 2021) – The Agricultural Credit Policy Council (ACPC) transferred an initial P20 million fund to two of its partner lending conduits in Ilocos Norte for the Kapital Access for Young Agripreneurs (KAYA) Program. Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar and ACPC Executive Director Jocelyn Alma Badiola led the ceremonial turnover of checks worth P10 million each.

“Sikat Saka Program (SSP)” – The Sikat Saka Program is an integrated financing program jointly implemented by the (ACPC) and Land Bank of the Philippines. The program aims to help more palay and corn farmers access timely, adequate, and affordable production credit and improve the viability of agricultural production by ensuring availability of irrigation services, extension, links to markets and providing a favorable economic environment.

Those are 3 of ACPC loan projects for farmers young and old. I do believe the ACPC is more active now than in the past, i.e., in response to national agri problems exacerbated by the coronavirus PH lockdown; and because of the leadership of the ACPC Chair, none other than Secretary of Agriculture William Dar. I am a member of the Nagkaisa Multi-Purpose Cooperative in my hometown Asingan, Pangasinan – happy to know ACPC has coops at heart!@517


[1]https://acpc.gov.ph/message-from-the-executive-director/

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