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Show Lovj-incomo farm loans Loans for low-income farm families to build their farming operations and raise family incomes are now available thrc 'gh local county offices of the Farmers Home Administration Adminis-tration (FmHA) of the UJS. Department of Agriculture. Gordon Cavenaugh, FmHA administrator, announced that FmHA is implementing the "Limited resource"far-mer resource"far-mer authority of the Agricultural Agri-cultural Credit Act of 1978. The program provides credit at reduced interest rates to low -income families whose farm operations and resources are so limited they cannot afford the regular interest rates for FmHA loans. The program is intended as a helping hand to young, beginning farmers and others, including many minority mi-nority pople, who have not had an opportunity to build substantial farms and make an adequate living. Limited resource borrowers bor-rowers of farm real estate and operating loans will be allowed to defer the begin-ging begin-ging of repayment, if nece-sary, nece-sary, until three years after they get their loans. For real estate loans to buy or improve land and buildings, borrowers will pay a 3 percent interest for the first three years of repayment, re-payment, then 5 percent in the following two years. Thereafter, they will pay whatever rate they can afford, af-ford, but not less than 5 percent, |