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Zambian agriculture business launches $81 mln farmer financing scheme

by SAT Reporter
March 2, 2020
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Zambian agriculture business launches $81 mln farmer financing scheme

President Edgar Lungu on tour of stands at SEEDCO Maize Field during Agrictech Expo in Chisamba with the visiting Czech Republic agric Minister Mr Marian Jurecja and Minister Given Lubinda at Agrictech Expo in at GART Research Centre in Chisamba on Friday- PICTURE BY EDDIE MWANALEZA/STATEHOUSE.

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Zambia’s African Green Resources (AGR) on Sunday launched an $81 million financing programme under which the company and its partners will provide farm supplies and technology to farmers in exchange for grain. As part of broader plans by AGR to invest $150 million in Zambia for projects including a 50 megawatt solar farm and irrigation dam, AGR will target 120 commercial farmers and 250,000 small and middle farmers with the new programme to boost food security in Zambia and the surrounding region, chairman Zuneid Yousuf said in a statement.

It will cover 60,000 tonnes of fertiliser for wheat and soya farming – worth $55 million – and $26 million for projects such as the expansion of grain storage silos. It will be financed through regional and global banks, with the money repaid from the produce the programme yields.

“We expect to receive 44,000 tonnes of wheat per season,” Yousuf said, some of which will be processed before being sold on local and international markets.

“We will repay the loan from sales of wheat flour, soya processing plant products and silo revenue.”

Some of the money is also guaranteed by the African Development Bank, the African Union, Sace Italy and Agriculture Grain International.

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