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Food security: CBN disburses N791bn to 3m farmers

Business 360 by Business 360
August 13, 2021
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),  says it has disbursed  N791 billion to over three million farmers across the 36 states,  under its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP). The Director, Development Finance Department of the bank, Mr Yusuf Yila, made this known on Friday in Abuja, during an interaction with newsmen.

Yila said  the apex bank had reduced interest rate on the loan  from nine per cent to five per cent,  to encourage more farmers to have access to the credit. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls  that the ABP was launched on Nov. 17, 2015 and designed to provide farm inputs and cash to Small Holder Farmers (SHFs).

The programme was intended to create a linkage between Anchor Companies involved in food processing and SHFs of the required key agricultural commodities,  through commodity associations.

He said  the programme had helped participating  farmers  to improve their yields,  especially maize from initial two metric tons per hectare,  to five metric tons per hectare,  while that of rice to four metric tons  per hectare.

Yela said  the bank was also investing in reducing post-harvest loses of farm produce,  by encouraging dry season farming, describing it as “better in reducing such losses. “Agriculture works better in the dry season, because you cannot control water during the rainy season, but you can control it during the dry season by using irrigation.

“The bank is also building silos and irrigation dams to reduce losses,’’ he said. Yila said the apex bank had also disbursed about N312 billion,  in energy infrastructure support through National Mass Metering Programme.

He explained that the programme was initiated to bridge the six million metering gap in the country, adding that 670 thousand meters had been distributed across the country. “We are also ensuring value addition in the scheme,  by ensuring  the meters are not fully imported but assembled  in Nigeria. “By that,  we are creating thousands of jobs and also supporting economic diversification,’’ the director said. (NAN).

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