About ASERCA

Support and Services for Agricultural Trading (ASERCA), is a decentralized administrative part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Alimentary (SAGARPA), created through a presidential decree of April 16, 1991, with the purpose of having an instrument for promoting the trading of agricultural production for the benefit of producers of the field, who face the opening and liberalization of outside markets.

Two are its core functions: the first covers the area of strengthening the agricultural trading, through fiscal aid to the trading of grains and oilseeds, which are awarded on a selective basis and located regionally; building of market mechanisms and the design of negotiation schemes between producers and buyers; stimuli for the use of hedge price risk; generation and dissemination of market information and identification and promotion of exports.

The second function is to operate and administer the Direct Field Support Program (PROCAMPO), which has a central importance in the new scheme of the country's agricultural development, by directly transferring governmental aid as income for producers, most of which have limited means, without differentiating markets. For this, the integration of a directory of fields and producers will be carried out, regulations for each cycle will be drawn; logging, each year, more than four million applications and emitting payments to three million producers, covering an area of close to 14 million hectares.

Mission

Support and Services for Agricultural Trading, (ASERCA), as a decentralized administrative part of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Alimentary, has to design, implement, monitor and evaluate public policies in terms of support to the field and contemplated by the National Development Plan, as well as in the Sector Program for the medium term, to strengthen the development of the sector, agricultural profitability and revenue from domestic producers, through the implementation of programs of direct support to producers and the promotion of mechanisms for financing and organizing, for their incorporation in a condition of competitiveness and profitability to the agro-alimentary chains of national and international markets.

Vision

Strengthen the presence of SAGARPA through ASERCA in rural areas and place it as an institution of excellence that is recognized for its commitment in the development and modernization of the countryside, and actively participate in the definition of sectoral policies in terms of support and services for the production and marketing.

ASERCA aims to achieve the elimination of extreme poverty in rural areas; achieve efficient diversification of products by region; promote an enrichment of the diet of the population, reflecting the cultural characteristics of the regions and the country, organizing and integrating producers in agro-industrial chains; strengthen federalism and regional development; transform subsidies in incentives to generate positive impacts on production and marketing to achieve development and modernization of the food industry, and contribute to sustainability.

Our priority is to strengthen both the domestic and export sectors, which meet the demand quantity and quality of food and supplies, as part of an efficient trading system and market, allowing equal access to both buyers and sellers to financing, risk management, storage, certification and post-harvest handling, and which results in obtaining better levels of profitability, and generating value and employment opportunities for the producers in the field.

Our Programs

• PROCAMPO
• CAPITALIZA
• Alternative Registry
• Support Program
• Attention to Structural Problems Program

Other Programs

• PROGAN
• Agricultural Diesel
• Maritime Diesel
• Maritime Fuel