Farmers to benefit from Sh40bn loans

Farmers in parts of sub-Saharan Africa are set to benefit from a $25 million (Sh40 billion) risk sharing facility from the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF).

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Dec

Farmers to benefit by new deal

The Eastern Africa Grain Council (EAGC) in partnership with KCB Rwanda and the Rwanda Grain and Cereals Corporation (RGCC) have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that seeks to promote structured grain trade and financing in Rwanda and in the region.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Mar

Farmers’ agony to secure loans worsening

>Tanzanian farmers say commercial banks matter little to them and are increasingly becoming irrelevant to their lives.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

25 Aug

Farmers to benefit from key project

>About 3,000 farmers, members of the Lushoto and Korogwe Vegetable Growers (LUKOVEG), are expected to benefit from the construction of a Sh203 million packaging centre and a Sh108 million cold-room that would enable them to sort, clean and grade agricultural produce before exportation.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Sep

Farmers to benefit from new dairy plan

Heifer International, a global non-profit, humanitarian organisation that is dedicated to ending hunger and poverty and caring for the earth, recently launched the East Africa Dairy Development Programme in Tanzania.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 May

Farmers to benefit from end product of biogas technology

The Sokoine University of Agriculture (Sua) will now get fully involved in promoting biogas technology in the Southern Highlands regions for agriculture, it emerged here recently during a field visit by researchers.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jul

100,000 smallholder farmers to benefit from Sh7bn grants

The Alliance for a Green Revolution (Agra) yesterday announced that it will issue $4.25 million (about Sh7 billion) grants.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Feb

Dairy farmers to benefit from KSh3.5bn East African fund

>Dairy breeders will benefit from a KSh3.5 billion regional fund to finance their milk enterprises.The fund from the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) will finance phase two of its project through establishing small producer dairy hubs in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Apr

Battle for Dart’s Sh40bn continues

>The government has rejected the World Bank’s idea to have a tender to operate the interim project for Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit advertised to allow both foreign and local transporters to bid for the $21 million (Sh40 billion) deal, The Citizen has learnt.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Aug

Sh40bn saved from ghost workers

>The government saved about Sh40 billion last month after it officially started effecting a new salary payment system for all public servants.Effective July 2014, the salaries of its employees were channelled to their bank accounts in a move aimed at flushing out ghost workers who have cost taxpayers billions of shillings.

 

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