PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist eligible farmers, ranchers, and aquaculture operators, including farming cooperatives, corporations, partnerships, and joint operations, through the extension of credit and supervisory assistance to: Become owner-operators of not larger than family farms; make efficient use of the land, labor, and other resources; carry on sound and successful farming operations; and enable farm families to have a reasonable standard of living.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. AGRICULTURE;
- Forestry;
2. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Commercial Fisheries;
3. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Rural Community Development;
- Recreation;
- Site Acquisition;
4. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Facilities, Planning, Construction, and Equipment;
5. HOUSING;
- Rural Housing;
- Construction Rehabilitation;
6. NATURAL RESOURCES;
- Recreation;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Profit organization;
- Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer;
- U.S. Citizen;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- Individual/Family;
- Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans);
- Profit organization;