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The Nigerian Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), plans to facilitate about N60 billion in fresh commercial bank lending to farmers in the current financial year.<\/p>\n

The agency also said it will execute the $300 million African Development Bank, AfDB’s Youth Enable Programme, and operationalising the $500 million Mechanisation Partnership with the Brazilian Government and a host of others.<\/p>

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The moves are geared toward enhancing access to credit by farmers as well as making agribusiness more attractive to the youths to curtail the high rate of rural-urban migration. The Managing Director of NIRSAL, Aliyu Abbati Abdulhameed, disclosed this in Lagos, last week, while delivering a paper titled: “Powering Nigerian Agriculture Through Innovative Financing: The NIRSAL Edge” at the BusinessDay Agribusiness & Food Security Summit 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Incentive Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL), plans to facilitate about N60 billion in fresh commercial bank lending to farmers in the current financial year. 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