Osun Disburses N753m Loans To Farmers In 1 Year

The Osun Government has disbursed over N753 million as loans to farmers in the state in the last one year.
The Commissioner for Commerce, Industries, Co-operatives and Empowerment, Mr Ismail Alagbada, made the disclosure while defending his ministry’s 2014 budget today in Osogbo.
Alagbada had appeared before the state House of Assembly’s Committee on Finance and Appropriation.
The commissioner further said that the Bank of Industry was also collaborating with the state government in giving loans to the farmers.
He said 77 farmers’ co-operative societies had benefited from the loans under the Quick Impact Intervention Programme of the state government.
“The loans were disbursed to farmers in the bid to boost food production in the state,’’ the commissioner said.
He said also that the ministry had so far been able to recover N88 million out of the amount disbursed.
The commissioner however said the ministry was working assiduously to recover the outstanding N665 million before granting further loans to farmers from the 2014 budget.
The Speaker of the assembly, Mr Najeem Salaam, in his remarks urged the ministry to look inwards so as to improve its internally-generated revenue.
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