The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disbursed over N2.46 trillion to beneficiaries of its sundry intervention programmes in the past few years, with agricultural, manufacturing and health sectors accounting for the largest chunk of the funding supports. For instance, while the apex bank has disbursed a total of N756.51bn to over 3.7 million farmers […]
The Managing Director of the Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for Agriculture Lending, (NIRSAL), Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed, has said that the initiative’s support through the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to smallholder farmers will increase their income by about N135 billion this year. Making the forecast at a PULA Insurance workshop […]