Tree Assistance Program in Puerto Rico, 2019
Subsidy Recipients 1 to 20 of 62
Recipients of Tree Assistance Program from farms in Puerto Rico totaled $213,000 in in 2019.
| Rank | Recipient (* ownership information available) |
Location | Tree Assistance Program 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neftali Nieves Ingles | Anasco, PR 00610 | $17,453 |
| 2 | Farm Services Agency ** | Washington, DC 20250 | $16,495 |
| 3 | Luis A Nieves Ingles | Anasco, PR 00610 | $13,921 |
| 4 | Alexander Soto Garcia | Aguas Buenas, PR 00703 | $9,572 |
| 5 | Servicios Agricolas Del Centro Inc | Orocovis, PR 00720 | $9,352 |
| 6 | Francisco Pena Barbosa | Patillas, PR 00723 | $8,323 |
| 7 | Frankie Zayas Cordero | Corozal, PR 00783 | $6,618 |
| 8 | Hector G. Ramos Lopez | Yabucoa, PR 00767 | $6,569 |
| 9 | Jose M Colon Santos | Barranquitas, PR 00794 | $5,786 |
| 10 | Angel L Mercado Andreu | Corozal, PR 00783 | $5,407 |
| 11 | Jesus M Adames Torres Estate | Angeles, PR 00611 | $4,775 |
| 12 | Ulises Ruiz Vargas | Maricao, PR 00606 | $4,605 |
| 13 | Silvestre Ortega Santiago | Naranjito, PR 00719 | $4,551 |
| 14 | Joseph Giuliani-giorgi | Guayanilla, PR 00656 | $4,431 |
| 15 | Ivette Fernandez Molina | San Lorenzo, PR 00754 | $4,186 |
| 16 | Josue Pinto Inc | Yabucoa, PR 00767 | $4,150 |
| 17 | Natividad Velez Irizarry | Mayaguez, PR 00681 | $3,758 |
| 18 | Agapito Cordero Ortiz | Corozal, PR 00783 | $3,718 |
| 19 | Carlos B Vega-belen | Sabana Grande, PR 00637 | $3,610 |
| 20 | Prudencio Torres Medina | Las Piedras, PR 00771 | $3,605 |
* USDA data are not "transparent" for many payments made to recipients through most cooperatives. Recipients of payments made through most cooperatives, and the amounts, have not been made public. To see ownership information, click on the name, then click on the link that is titled Ownership Information.
** EWG has identified this recipient as a bank or lending institution that received the payment because the payment applicant had a loan requiring any subsidy payments go to the lender first. In 2019, the information provided to EWG by USDA began to include the entity that received the payment, rather than the person or entity that applied for it, which was previously provided. This move to shield subsidy recipients from disclosure enables USDA to further evade taxpayer accountability. Six percent of subsidy dollars went to banks, lending institutions, or the Farm Service Agency.”
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