CITY OF SAN FERNANDO Eighty Agri-Fishery Enterprises from Central Luzon for this year Young Farmers Challenge Competitive Grant Assistance Program 2022 of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

The primary goal of the program is to attract and encourage young Filipinos to begin their careers in agriculture, but not just as a farmer, but an agri-entrepreneur.

Young Farmers Challenge (YFC) is a nationwide search for young minds who could bring out ideas to help them or the farming industry prosper and promote food sustainability.

Young Agripreneurs declared as Provincial Awardees will receive Php 50,000.00 each for individual enterprise and P100,000 for group enterprise to convert their agribusiness venture ideas into reality.

Up for grabs are prize money worth P50,000 each for winners in the provincial level; P100,000 each for winners in the regional level; and P300,000 each for national winners. Odsey said that a Cordilleran was among the YFC national awardees in 2021 and received the P300,000 prize, according to the DA.

The DA said that participants who will hurdle the provincial, regional, and national rounds stand to get a total of around P500,000 which they can as capital for their project.