• INDAP makes available to the peasant family farming, a system of extention and support of innovation, that improve their skills and capacities to develop agricultural and rural entrepreneurship.
• INDAP facilitates access of the peasant family farming to financing programs  (credit  and non-refundable encouragement) that suits their needs of working capital and capital investment required to enhance economic entrepreneurship individual or associative.
• INDAP supports to the peasant family farmning expanding and improving their access conditions to the local, regional, national, and international markets to promote traditional products, distinguish of quality and searching approch between the producer and the final consumer.
• INDAP contributes organizational strengthening of the peasant family farming, just like in the economic way as gremial and representative.
• INDAP supports the develop and strength of the social capital of the peasant family farming, to promote cooperation initatives between producers as the network constitution and alliance with the public and privite world.

INDAP is a dependent institution of the Ministry of Agriculture of Chile and that creation and mandate is established by Organic Law number 18.910, modified by the Law number 19.213. Under this mandate, the institution empower to develop a wide range of actions related with de productive and rural development.

Considering the above. The main instituional competences are:

• Sustainble rural development.
• Policies and instruments of productive promotion for the AFC.
• Extend and innovation of level of the AFC.
• Policies and instruments for the entrepreneurship.
• Commercialization (Sello Manos Campesinas, Fair and Farmers Market, Network of Stores the in Rural World, and Government Procurement).
• Policies and instruments for the associativity development in level of AFC.
• Finance (with credit and non refundable resources).
• Policies and instruments for women, young and native people.