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CBN to fund 9 commodities’ value chain with N432bn

•Unveils non-interest loan for ABP

19th June 2020
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Uche Usim, Abuja

In its efforts to guarantee food security, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday, revealed plans to fund the value chains of nine commodities with N432 billion in the 2020 wet planting season. 

It also intends to release a framework for the integration of non-interest window in all its intervention programmes, particularly the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) and the Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) to  support households and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CBN Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor and Yila Yusuf, the Director, Development Finance Department, who jointly represented the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, at a stakeholder meeting in Abuja to review the successes recorded under the ABP and strategies for the 2020 agricultural wet season gave details of the policy.

Okorafor said the creation of a non-interest window followed appeals by concerned stakeholders for farmers across the country to be considered for funding under the non-interest window. While revealing that work had been concluded on the funding document, he said the policy would be issued shortly outlining how farmers under the category could apply and benefit from  the agricultural programmes of the CBN.

Okorafor said the CBN in the 2020 agricultural wet season was committed to aggressively fund its agricultural programmes and spur farmers along select crop value chains to prevent the country from sliding into a recession as is currently being experienced in some major economies of the world.

On the Targeted Credit Facility (TCF) of the bank aimed at alleviating the impact of the coronavirus on individuals and small businesses, Okorafor said that the bank was determined to push the economy to ensure Nigeria does not experience consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Accordingly, he said that the Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, had directed the Development Finance Department of the bank as well as the NIRSAL Micro-Finance Bank (NMFB) to fast-track the approval process of loans to help restore businesses and livelihoods.

In his remarks, the Director, Development Finance Department of CBN, Mr. Yila Yusuf, said the target for the 2020 agricultural wet season policy was to advance about N432 billion, through participating banks in the value chains of nine commodities. He also disclosed that over 1.1 million farmers, cultivating over one million hectares of farmland, were expected to benefit from the loans that will help to produce a collective output of 8.3 million metric tons.

According to Yusuf, the focus for the 2020 wet season is to ensure the provision of improved seeds to incentivise the farmers to return to their farms. He also stressed that the CBN adopted the value chain approach across all the commodities to ensure that every player along the entire value chain, from the farmers through to the processors, was financed.

He said the bank’s funding of the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) for the 2020 season was the highest since the inception of the programme in 2015, adding that this was quite significant considering the successes recorded in the 2019 season that contributed to shielding Nigeria from any food shortage, particularly rice, in the heat of the global lockdown during which some major producing countries of staples, such as rice, closed their silos and halted the export of those produce from the shores of their respective countries.

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