Kathmandu, July 6
Small
Farmer Development Microfinance Financial Institution Limited has expanded its
services to about 900,000 families of small holder farmers and the deprived
communities.
The
company is catering microfinance and agricultural promotion programme to those
families in 74 districts, it said in a statement issued on the occasion of its
20th anniversary on Tuesday.
Sana
Kisan is promoting 1,374 cooperatives including 957 small farmers’ agriculture
cooperatives in 531 municipalities in 74 districts.
“In
near future, the company will expand its services to more municipalities and
contribute to the transformation of agriculture to bring prosperity to farmers
and expedition of entrepreneurship development programmes,” chairman of the
company, Khem Bahadur Pathak said at the anniversary programme organised
virtually.
He
said that agricultural businesses and enterprises run by the youth in the rural
areas will grow and prosper if they have access to easy and concessional loans.
According to him, the company aimed at creating agro-entrepreneurs.
Addressing
the programme attended by more than 300 representatives of agro-cooperatives
and farmers, Governor of the Nepal Rastra Bank Maha Prasad Adhikari said that
the company has played an important role in raising the living standards of
poor farmers and contributed to poverty alleviation. According to him, the
company should pay attention to the qualitative factors in its business
expansion.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 7 July 2021.
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