Coming soon on June 2025

Aquaculture

The proposal envisions the construction of a cooperative fish stockpile and storage center, in which a series of facilities and equipment will ensure the proper and efficient handling of aquaculture products, maintaining quality, freshness, and food safety from tank to table. This center aims also at promoting production and business organization among producers, as well as coordinating market promotion politics with all the sector actors: public institutions (wealth and nutrition, market promotion, education, industry…), private companies, retail actors, local municipalities and regions government. This process includes a huge effort in communication as well as detailed market analysis and building local market strategies, linked to the strengthening of quality process (and protein value of fishes) and diversification of fish offer.

Furthermore, Paraguay's proposal contemplates strengthening small producers’ productive equipment (aquaculture tanks and pools) located across the departments of Central, Cordillera, Paraguarí, Caaguazú, Alto Paraná, San Pedro; Misiones; and Itapúa.

Finally, the investment case proposes the strengthening of relevant logistical equipment (such as refrigerated transportation systems) and technology for sanity and innocuous production chain, in small and industrial producers, in order to facilitate a private - public structure that guarantees safe process in production, slaughtering, packing and stockpiling.

This investment program is expected to cost USD 31,1 million, at an estimated IRR of 21% and a NPV of USD 32,8 million. It will directly benefit 2,859 families in the targeted regions and indirectly improve the livelihoods of more than 170.000 people.

Financial Inclusion

The Jepytaso programme is organized around four pillars:

The creation of the FIPROMIPYMES Trust Fund, created upon approval of the bill "Creating the Administration Trust for Financial Support to Producers, Independent Professionals, Self-Employed Workers, Micro and Small Enterprises (FIPROMIPYMES)," approved by Congress on June 24, 2025, that aims at financing working capital and/or productive investment

to family farming producers, micro and small entrepreneurs, associations, cooperatives. These may be sole proprietorships, self-employed workers, independent professionals, or legal entities, both formal and non-formalized, preferably from the value chain of the primary production sector and associated services. The law also mentions that the financial inclusion of women and youth, as producers and entrepreneurs interested in providing products and services to the Zero Hunger Program, will be prioritized within the framework of the need to strengthen the value chain (volume, formalization of actors, innovation).

The trust financial products are guaranteed by the public fund FOGAPY.

The objective of strengthening chain values and markets: among them, the implementation of the Zero Hunger School Feeding Program, particularly the value chains of Family Farming and MSMEs within the framework of direct and indirect public procurement; the quality and safety of vegetables and fruits for export (pineapple, banana, and others) and in general, strengthen the marketing of domestically produced food products.

The objective of linking financial credit with technical assistance and market. Thus the technical assistance shall be executed on behalf of market analyse and shall include commercial support formation, in addition to sustainable production practices and technology.

Regarding territorial prioritization, the administrative coverage criteria of the CAH and other partner entities are followed. At the production level, prioritization is applied by growth potential indices (by sector and/or territory) in accordance with the agricultural typology of the Hand in Hand Initiative developed by the MEF and MAG with the technical support of FAO.

FIPROMIPYMES is a public impact fund open to private investors who wish to participate in the country's socioeconomic development by strengthening the healthy food production and marketing system.

The Trust's partners or capital contributors are public or private entities, or national or international cooperating entities that contribute to the Trust, stating via a trust agreement the financial products to which they wish to contribute, as well as the bases to be negotiated for the financial terms of their contribution. As a socioeconomic impact fund, trust agreements are established with each fund

partner, which may vary. These agreements establish a fixed interest rate and an annual return on the capital, proportional to the profitability of the financial products.

The Fipromipymes trust already counts on USD 8,5 million public apport. It aims to develop until at least USD 20 million.