{"id":315232,"date":"2017-05-01T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=315232"},"modified":"2017-05-01T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:00:24","slug":"govt-to-partner-bonzali-rural-bank-to-assist-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/05\/govt-to-partner-bonzali-rural-bank-to-assist-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t to partner Bonzali Rural Bank to assist farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"
Government is to partner with Northern Region\u2019s leading rural bank, Bonzali Rural Bank Limited to give stimulus packages to smallholder farmer groups and traders.<\/p>\n
According to the Northern Regional Minister, Bonzali Rural Bank Limited will oversee the disbursement in line with government\u2019s agriculture sector transformation agenda.<\/p>\n
This in Salifu Saeed\u2019s estimation, could boost government\u2019s \u2018Planting for Food and Jobs\u2019 programme as a means of promoting agribusiness in rural communities.<\/p>\n
He reaffirmed government\u2019s commitment to support peasant farmers in the region to practice all-year round farming.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Salifu Saeed made this known at the Bonzali Rural Bank\u2019s 10th <\/sup>Annual General Meeting at its headquarters in Kumbungu.<\/p>\n He acknowledged the bank\u2019s immense contribution towards poverty eradication, hence government\u2019s Public-Private-Partnership strategy.<\/p>\n He commended the bank\u2019s management for networking with successive governments and development partners to improve the socio-economic well-being of the rural poor.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough the bank, farmer groups will be supported in order to encourage them practice the irrigation system of farming especially during the dry season. As part of the Akufo Addo government\u2019s commitment to enhance the agricultural sector, the one village, one dam policy will support rural communities to do farming all-year round.\u201d<\/p>\n He urged management of the Bonzali Rural Bank Limited to extend its Corporate Social Responsibility saying, \u201cWith the support of your Corporate Social Responsibility, Ghana can be a better place for all.\u201d<\/p>\n