Entrepreneur Lauds BOI’s Agribusiness Funds Scheme

A Port Harcourt-based
entrepreneur has lauded the efforts of the Management of the Bank of Industry (BOI) for its intervention in the agribusiness sector through the agribusiness scheme fund.
Speaking to The Tide in Port Harcourt, on Friday the entrepreneur, Mr. Ogundele Taiwo, said the bank loans would assist small-scale agribusiness farmers in the country overcome some major challenges facing their business. Taiwo said the bank should ensure that effective implementation strategies are put in place for the proper distribution of the fund to the beneficiaries through out the country.
The entrepreneur, who is also the Chief Executive /Managing Director, Taiwo Agribusiness Enterprise Limited, Okomoko in Etche local government area of the state, said the bank’s policy of the Cottage Agro-Processing (CAP) fund designed to finance cottage projects would assist in wealth creation and employment generation in the country.
He said President Goodluck Jonathan Agricultural Transformation Agenda has achieved some significant  objectives in the agribusiness sector especially the huge investments by notable investors like the Dangote Group and the Olam Group, stressing that the objective of the federal government’s policy was to increase local crop production and reduce food import thereby creating jobs for Nigerians.
BOI had recently launched N5 billion agribusiness fund to assist small scale farmers improve their business output through out the country.
The bank in a statement recently said the timely repayment of the loans under the fund would attract bigger project loans to the beneficiaries in order for them to ensure greater wealth creation opportunities for their business.

Philip Okparaji