The Farm Security Administration or (FSA) was created in 1937 by the Dept. of Agriculture. The FSA was basically an effort during the Great Depression to combat rural poverty. The FSA stressed to improve the lives of sharecroppers, tenants, an poor landowning farmers. The FSA loaned over 1 billion dollars to help farmers become land holders and establish camps for migrant workers.The FSA was not a relief agency. It worked through county offices that reported to state directors. It was for the farmers that weren’t hopeless but couldn’t obtain credit elsewhere.The largest program of the FSA was the loan program. Loans were used directly for farm activities but also indirectly for housing improvements. The purpose was to provide means for farmers to become self sustaining.I think the FSA was a good program to have. It’s smart to try to get the farmers to become self sustaining, and also smart not to just take any farmer off the street. They took only farmers that they thought would work to become self sustaining, not the helpless or hopeless.Sources:http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FA015.htmlChapter 15.2 in our book.
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