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Apply through your regional Department of Agriculture office. There is no form to download, no portal and no competitive round. The incentives page publishes exactly one access instruction, under the heading "SOLICITA": "Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional" — by writing to or calling your Regional Office. That heading links straight to the regional directory at https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/contactanos#regiones, where you choose your municipality ("Seleccione Pueblo") and it returns the office that serves you.

The eight regional offices, each with a regional director, an email and a phone:

- Región de Arecibo — regionarecibo@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 878-2028. Centro Gubernamental suite 110-A, segundo piso, Ave. José A. Cedeño, Arecibo PR 00612.
- Región de Caguas — regioncaguas@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 258-8106. Note the office sits in Cayey: Carr. 1 km 51.3, Bo. Beatriz, Sector Pozuelo, Cayey PR 00736.
- Región de Lares — regionlares@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 897-2752 / (787) 897-1735. Carr. 111, Ave. Los Patriotas, Lares.
- Región de Mayagüez — regionmayaguez@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 832-5022 / (787) 832-5021. Centro Gubernamental, Calle Nena Dych, Oficina 207, Mayagüez PR 00680.
- Región de Naranjito — regionnaranjito@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 869-9100. Carr. 152 Km. 12.7, Bo. Cerro Arriba, Naranjito.
- Región de Ponce — regionponce@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 842-5210 / (787) 840-8826. Office is in Santa Isabel: Carr. 153 Km. 2.5, Bo. Felicia.
- Región de San Germán — regionsangerman@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 892-5158. 384 Carr. 102 Km 26.3, Bo. Sabana Enea, San Germán 00683.
- Región de Utuado — regionutuado@agricultura.pr.gov, (787) 894-4025. Carr. 111 Km. 3.4, Viví Abajo, Utuado.

Central offices: (787) 304-5350, 1309 Av. Manuel Fernández Juncos, San Juan PR 00908 (postal: P.O. Box 10163, San Juan PR 00908-1163).

Intake timing is not published as a round. Neither the incentives page nor the Manual de Incentivos publishes an application deadline, opening date or submission window for this line item. The incentive is awarded "según la aprobación y disponibilidad de fondos" — subject to approval and availability of funds — so treat it as continuous inquiry against a fiscal-year budget rather than a competition, and ask the regional office how much of the year's money is left before you commit to a purchase.

Read your line item in the manual before you call. The manual is downloadable from https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/incentivos — "DESCARGUE EL MANUAL: Para descargar oprima aquí o escanea el código QR." Your category is "Pequeños Empresarios — Cabros, Ovejas y Conejos"; note that as published it covers rabbits as well as goats and sheep.

What to have in hand. The manual's Requisitos Generales apply to every incentive in it, this one included:

- Legal farm tenure: "Operar legalmente una finca en cualquier concepto de tenencia legal notarizada (a excepción de los contratos de la ATPR)." Owned or leased both work — but notarized.
- "Contar con un Certificado de Registro de Comerciante vigente" — a current merchant registration certificate.
- "Estar registrado en el Agroperfil." If you are not, start at https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/agroperfil.
- "Presentar evidencia de haber completado la Encuesta General" — evidence you completed the Department's general survey.
- Compliance with Ley 99 of 2 July 2002 and article 4 of Ley 12 of 12 December 1966, Puerto Rico's Agricultural Insurance Act, for insurable crops and structures.

If you employ agricultural workers, the manual adds employer requirements: pay at least "cinco dólares y veinticinco centavos ($5.25) por hora, el salario garantizado por la Ley 60," and "Cumplir con sus responsabilidades patronales (seguro social patronal, seguro por desempleo y póliza fondo seguro estado)."

Two process details specific to this category. For the breeding payment, the animals are tagged and certified before you are paid: young goats and sheep "serán identificadas mediante bolo ruminal y se certificarán para pago en un solo plazo" — identified by ruminal bolus and certified for payment in a single instalment. For the 50 percent cost-share side, the manual lists what the money must be used for (corrals, cages, shelters, automatic waterers, rabbit hutches, feeders, water systems, waste-handling facilities or equipment, fencing), so ask the office what evidence of purchase or construction it wants and in what order — before or after the work.

Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture - Oficinas Centrales

A Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture incentive for producers of **small ruminants** (_pequeños rumiantes_ — goats and sheep), paid per animal to support herd development on the island.


The incentive is one line item in the Department's annual _Manual de Incentivos_. For FY2026–2027 the published rate is **$100 per head, up to 10 animals per farmer per year**.


Access is not a competitive round — it runs through the Department's regional offices. The Department's own instruction is _"SOLICITA: Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional"_ (apply by writing or calling your regional office).



A Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture incentive for producers of small ruminants (pequeños rumiantes — goats and sheep), paid per animal to support herd development on the island.

The incentive is one line item in the Department's annual Manual de Incentivos. For FY2026–2027 the published rate is $100 per head, up to 10 animals per farmer per year.

Access is not a competitive round — it runs through the Department's regional offices. The Department's own instruction is "SOLICITA: Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional" (apply by writing or calling your regional office).

Puerto Rico small-ruminant producers — individual farmers (agricultores), not institutions. There is no competitive round and no application window: the Department's only access instruction is "SOLICITA: Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional" (apply by writing or calling your Regional Office). Eligibility is confirmed at the regional office, subject to "la aprobación y disponibilidad de fondos" (approval and availability of funds).

What you must produce. The incentive sits in the manual under the category "Pequeños Empresarios — Cabros, Ovejas y Conejos" — goats, sheep and rabbits. Note that the published category is broader than small ruminants alone: rabbit producers are covered by the same category and cost-share.

The five general requirements (Requisitos Generales) apply to every incentive in the manual, this one included:

- Operate a farm legally. "Operar legalmente una finca en cualquier concepto de tenencia legal notarizada (a excepción de los contratos de la ATPR)" — operate a farm legally under any notarized form of legal tenure, except ATPR contracts. Owned or leased both work, but the tenure has to be notarized.
- Merchant registration. "Contar con un Certificado de Registro de Comerciante vigente" — hold a current Merchant Registration Certificate.
- Agroperfil registration. "Estar registrado en el Agroperfil."
- General survey. "Presentar evidencia de haber completado la Encuesta General" — show evidence that you completed the Department's General Survey.
- Agricultural insurance law. "Cultivos asegurables/Estructuras deben cumplir con los requisitos de la Ley 99 del 2 de julio de 2002 y el artículo 4 de la Ley No. 12 del 12 de diciembre de 1966, según enmendada, conocida como la Ley de Seguros Agrícolas de Puerto Rico" — insurable crops and structures must comply with Puerto Rico's Agricultural Insurance Act.

If you employ agricultural workers there are additional employer requirements: pay at least "cinco dólares y veinticinco centavos ($5.25) por hora, el salario garantizado por la Ley 60" and "Cumplir con sus responsabilidades patronales (seguro social patronal, seguro por desempleo y póliza fondo seguro estado)" — employer social security, unemployment insurance and State Insurance Fund policy.

Per-farmer caps act as limits, not as tests. The breeding incentive pays "cien dólares ($100.00) por cabeza hasta un máximo de diez (10) animales por agricultor por año programa" — $100 per head, up to 10 animals per farmer per program year, for young goats and sheep, which "serán identificadas mediante bolo ruminal y se certificarán para pago en un solo plazo" (identified by ruminal bolus and certified for payment in a single instalment). The separate cost-share is "hasta el cincuenta por ciento (50%) del costo total, hasta un máximo de doce mil dólares ($12,000.00) por año, por agricultor" for buying animals, equipment and/or building structures.

No herd-size minimum, acreage minimum, income floor, years-of-experience requirement, or audience restriction (beginning, veteran, socially disadvantaged) is published for this category. The requirements above are the whole published test — the rest is the regional office's determination.

Where to start: your regional Departamento de Agricultura office, or PR Dept of Agriculture, 1309 Av. Manuel Fernández Juncos, San Juan PR 00908.

A lump sum of money for a specific purpose that does not need to be paid back.

Grant

Socially Disadvantaged

Historically Underserved

Two separate incentives for small-ruminant producers, both published in the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture's Manual de Incentivos (FY2025-2026), under the category "Pequeños Empresarios — Cabros, Ovejas y Conejos" (goats, sheep and rabbits).

1. Cost-share for animals, equipment and structures — 50%, up to $12,000/year. Verbatim: "El incentivo de esta categoría será hasta el cincuenta por ciento (50%) del costo total, hasta un máximo de doce mil dólares ($12,000.00) por año, por agricultor, para la compra de animales, equipo y/o construcción de estructura, según la aprobación y disponibilidad de fondos." Eligible uses are listed explicitly: corrals, cages, shelters, automatic waterers, rabbit hutches, feeders, water systems, waste-management facilities or equipment, and fencing.

2. Breeding-stock payment — $100 per head, 10 head/year. Verbatim: "Se incentivará la crianza de cabras y ovejas jóvenes a razón de, cien dólares ($100.00) por cabeza hasta un máximo de diez (10) animales por agricultor por año programa." That caps this line at $1,000 per farmer per year. Animals must be identified by ruminal bolus and are certified for payment in a single installment.

Both are explicitly subject to approval and fund availability. There is no discrete application window — the manual's only access instruction is "SOLICITA: Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional" (apply by writing or calling your regional office).

Related line worth knowing: the improved-pasture/forage planting incentive is a fertilizer purchase voucher of $175 or $125 per cuerda depending on crop, and it explicitly covers "Pastos Mejorados... para las Industrias de Producción de Forraje, Ganado de Carne y Pequeños Rumiantes."

Apply through your ADEA regional office. There is no online portal and no PIEOMPA-specific application form published.

The route. The Department of Agriculture's incentives page states the method for its incentive programs in one line: "SOLICITA — Escribiendo o llamando a tu Oficina Regional" ("Apply — by writing or calling your Regional Office"). Find the office that serves your municipality using the "Regiones" municipality selector at https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/contactanos.

Intake timing is not published. Neither the ADEA program listing at https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/agencias?tab=adea nor the department's Manual de Incentivos 2025-2026 publishes an application window, deadline, or funding round for PIEOMPA. Note also that the manual — which itemises the department's other incentives in detail — carries no PIEOMPA section at all, so the ADEA agency page is the only published description of this program. Call your regional office to find out whether funds are currently being obligated.

What you must have in place first. PIEOMPA is available "exclusivamente para 'agricultores bonafides'," so a current bona fide farmer decree is the gating document. The general requirements the department publishes for its incentive programs (Manual de Incentivos 2025-2026, "Requisitos Generales") are:
- "Operar legalmente una finca en cualquier concepto de tenencia legal notarizada (a excepción de los contratos de la ATPR)" — legally operate a farm under notarised legal tenancy.
- "Contar con un Certificado de Registro de Comerciante vigente" — a current Merchant's Registration certificate.
- Insurable crops and structures must comply with Puerto Rico's crop insurance law (Ley 99 of 2 July 2002; Ley 12 of 12 December 1966, as amended).
- "Estar registrado en el Agroperfil" — be registered in Agroperfil.
- "Presentar evidencia de haber completado la Encuesta General" — evidence of having completed the General Survey.

No document checklist specific to PIEOMPA — for the proposed investment, quotes, or project plans — is published. Ask the regional office what it needs for a capital-investment file.

Who to ask. Puerto Rico is divided into eight agricultural regions. These are the numbers in the department's own live regional directory at https://www.agricultura.pr.gov/contactanos, which is the list the "SOLICITA" instruction sends you to:
- Oficinas Centrales: 787-304-5350
- Región de Arecibo: (787) 878-2028 — regionarecibo@agricultura.pr.gov
- Región de Caguas: (787) 258-8106 — regioncaguas@agricultura.pr.gov (the office is in Cayey, not Caguas)
- Región de Lares: (787) 897-2752 / (787) 897-1735 — regionlares@agricultura.pr.gov
- Región de Mayagüez: (787) 832-5022 / (787) 832-5021 — regionmayaguez@agricultura.pr.gov
- Región de Naranjito: (787) 869-9100 — regionnaranjito@agricultura.pr.gov
- Región de Ponce: (787) 842-5210 / (787) 840-8826 — regionponce@agricultura.pr.gov (the office is in Santa Isabel, not Ponce)
- Región de San Germán: (787) 892-5158 — regionsangerman@agricultura.pr.gov
- Región de Utuado: (787) 894-4025 — regionutuado@agricultura.pr.gov

One source conflict worth knowing about: the contact page of the Manual de Incentivos 2025-2026 PDF gives Ponce as 787-840-8838, a number that does not appear anywhere in the live directory, and the same block in that PDF has lost the region headings for the Lares and Utuado lines. Where the manual and the live directory disagree, use the directory. Central office: 1309 Av. Manuel Fernández Juncos, San Juan, PR 00908; mail to P.O. Box 10163, San Juan, PR 00908-1163.

A cost-share program from the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (ADEA) supporting permanent capital investment on agricultural operations — innovative projects, equipment and machinery acquisition, land improvements, agricultural infrastructure, technology adoption, substitution of fossil-fuel sources in agricultural projects, agricultural cooperatives, and Eco-Farm/Eco-Ranch (Eco-Finca/Eco-Granja) projects. Provides up to 50% of the investment, up to a maximum of $250,000, exclusively for bona fide farmers.



Exclusively bona fide Puerto Rico farmers (agricultores bona fide) certified by ADEA. General ADEA program requirements also apply.

A payment that requires some percentage of matching contributions by the recipient.

Cost Share

HVAC

Lighting

Repairs

Buildings

Construction

Fencing

Greenhouse

High Tunnel

Irrigation

Storage

Biofuel

Hydro Power

Solar Power

Wind Energy

Cost-share of up to 50% of the investment, up to a maximum of $250,000 per bona fide farmer, for permanent capital investment — equipment and machinery, land improvements, agricultural infrastructure, technology adoption, fossil-fuel-source substitution, agricultural cooperatives, and Eco-Farm/Eco-Ranch projects.

Apply by writing to or calling your ADEA regional office (regional office phone numbers are listed in the FY2025-2026 Manual de Incentivos and at agricultura.pr.gov).

An umbrella reimbursement/cost-share program from the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (ADEA) that reimburses producers a portion of qualifying investments (typically about 50%, with per-category caps) across livestock, beekeeping, fertilizer, coffee, citrus, cacao, hydroponics, fishing, and specialized equipment. Documented in the FY2025-2026 Manual de Incentivos.



Bona fide Puerto Rico farmers who meet ADEA's general requirements: (1) legally operate a farm under a notarized form of legal tenure; (2) hold a current Merchant Registration Certificate (Registro de Comerciante); (3) comply with the PR Agricultural Insurance Law (Law 12 of 1966 / Law 99 of 2002); (4) are registered in AgroPerfil; and (5) provide evidence of a completed General Survey (Encuesta General).

Weeds

Inputs

Nutrient Management

Reimbursement/cost-share, generally 50% of qualifying investment, with per-category annual caps per farmer. Livestock: small ruminants/rabbits (goats, sheep, rabbits) up to $12,000/yr, plus $100/head for young goats/sheep (max 10/yr); cattle heifer replacement $300/head (max 50/yr); improved-pasture planting $200/cuerda (max 60 cuerdas = $12,000/yr); poultry up to $12,000/yr; beekeeping 50% of equipment up to $3,000/yr; swine $200/young sow and $300/young boar up to $6,000/yr, plus $100/replacement sow up to $12,000. Fertilizer vouchers: $175/cuerda (plantain, root crops, fruit, improved pasture) or $125/cuerda (vegetables) up to $3,500/yr; hydroponics $150/structure up to $1,500/yr. Fruit trees: 50%, up to $3,000/yr. Cacao: 50% of grafted seedlings up to $1,144/cuerda (max 2 cuerdas/yr). Citrus: $6/seedling, min 165/cuerda, up to 5 cuerdas ($4,950/yr). Coffee: new plantings (1,000 seedlings/cuerda up to 20 cuerdas, farmer pays $0.25/tree, plus purchase orders — fertilizer $200, pesticides $100, lime $150); replanting $0.60/seedling up to 5,000 (farmer pays $0.40); pruning $50/cuerda plus $100/cuerda fertilizer voucher. Fishing: 50% up to $12,000. Specialized equipment: 50% up to $12,000/yr. Equipment rental (machinery): 50% of hourly cost up to $8,000/yr (e.g. crawler $35/hr, excavator $42.50/hr, animal traction $15/hr; drone spraying 50% up to $100/hr).

Apply through your ADEA regional office; applicants must be registered in AgroPerfil (agricultura.pr.gov).

A wage/payroll subsidy administered by the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (ADEA) that reimburses agricultural employers a portion of their qualifying wage and payroll-tax costs, helping producers retain agricultural labor.



Puerto Rico bona fide farmers / agricultural employers who employ agricultural workers and pay at least $5.25/hour (the wage guaranteed by Ley 60), and who meet employer obligations (employer Social Security, unemployment insurance, and state insurance fund). General ADEA program requirements also apply (legal farm operation, current Merchant Registration, Agricultural Insurance Law compliance, AgroPerfil registration, and a completed General Survey).

Training

Reimburses 50% of the hourly rate paid by the employer per certified hour worked, capped so it does not exceed 50% of the federal or state minimum wage, with a guaranteed minimum of $2.72 per certified hour worked (since July 1, 2021) and up to a maximum of about $250,000 per year, subject to annual budget (Código de Incentivos de Puerto Rico, Ley 60-2019; the law sets no fixed cap so long as budget permits). Sector-specific wage subsidies also apply: dairy $0.022 per quart certified by ORIL; broiler producers $5.55 per 1,000 lbs of certified chicken; egg producers $1.40 per 30-dozen case plus $0.15 per certified pullet; coffee harvest $1.50 per almud of ripe Arabica (max $1,200 / 800 almudes); and a Christmas bonus (Bono de Navidad) of $165–$235 for workers earning over $200 in certified agricultural wages.

List of Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture (DAPR) Funding Opportunities