Micro-finance institutions asked to support agricultural production

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• Chief amankwa 12 years ago

  Minister shut up ,you can't do nothing

  Minister shut up ,you can't do nothing

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• SHALOM 12 years ago

  This is a laudable idea since the microfinancing strategy in rural farming communities could embrace large number of farmers from subsistence to small and medium scale farming ventures. The issue we need to address, with the ...
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  This is a laudable idea since the microfinancing strategy in rural farming communities could embrace large number of farmers from subsistence to small and medium scale farming ventures. The issue we need to address, with the assistance of the central bank (Bank of Ghana), is the cost of capital to the farmers who may access funding facilities from the MFIs since their interest charges seem to be too high. As most of the yields from their agricultural produce are seasonal and mostly dependent on the favourability of the weather, the farmers who take such facilities may end up in huge debts to the NFIs.

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• ALHAJI KUKRUDU 12 years ago

  Is Humado serious? This man is already a mess and a square peg in a round hole. MF insttitutions to support Agric? Does he know what he was talking about? Even the universal banks with minimum capital of 60million Ghana cedis ...
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  Is Humado serious? This man is already a mess and a square peg in a round hole. MF insttitutions to support Agric? Does he know what he was talking about? Even the universal banks with minimum capital of 60million Ghana cedis are running away from financing agric and this man wants MF institutions with only 100,000.00 capital to support agric? Does he know the risk involved in agric financing? What a STUPID minister? Instead of him to work out schemes for the agric sector to access soft loans from bodies like MASLOC, he wants to erode capitals of private institutions? Since he took up the position, has he held any meeting with ADB to find out the percentage of their portfolio which is for agric? What a FOOLISH man who is also following the status quo by reading long speeches written for him which he did not understand, let alone think of their implications. And he claim his speciality is agric?Where are we heading to? God saves us!!!

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• JOEDUSU@yahoo.com 12 years ago

  ALHAJI, I HAVE RESERVED WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO POST BECASUE YOU SAID IT ALL. AND TO THINK THAT SHALOM, WHO POSTED JUST BEFORE YOU THINKS THE MINISTERS ASSERTIONS ARE LAUDABLE IMAGINE. WHAT I CANT STAND IS COMPLETELY EMPTY HEADED ...
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  ALHAJI, I HAVE RESERVED WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO POST BECASUE YOU SAID IT ALL. AND TO THINK THAT SHALOM, WHO POSTED JUST BEFORE YOU THINKS THE MINISTERS ASSERTIONS ARE LAUDABLE IMAGINE. WHAT I CANT STAND IS COMPLETELY EMPTY HEADED PEOPLE MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH ARE SO FUNNY. AS YOU PUT IT EVEN COMMERCIAL BANKS CANT SUPPORT AGRIC AND MF INSTITUTION WHO LEND CREDIT ONLY FOR 3 TO 12 MTHS ARE THE ONE TIS MINSTER IS CALLING TO SUPPORT AGRIC. IMAGINE! CLEARLY THOSE IN AUTHORITY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DO OTHER THAN ENJOYING THIER PECKS. HOW FUNNY TO THINK OF MF'S A THE SOLUTION OT AGRIC. HA HA HA

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• SY 12 years ago

  agric is the key to deve lopment

  agric is the key to deve lopment

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