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AfDB approves $150m to support agriculture value-chain

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November 14, 2021
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 150 million dollars to support ETC Group’s trade and agriculture value-chain development in Africa.

Mr Amba Mpoke-Bigg, Head, AfDB Communication and External Relations Department made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday, in Abuja.

Mpoke-Bigg said that AfDB’s board of directors had approved 150 million dollars facility to ETC Group Ltd., to address the company’s working capital requirements and support its food production expansion plans across 10 countries in Africa.

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According to him, this will be a boost for smallholder farmers.
He said that the investment would be a trade and agri-finance package, comprising 75 million dollars soft commodity finance facility to support the group’s pre and post shipment working capital requirements, with a particular focus on export-oriented activities.

”It also includes a 75 million dollars agriculture value-chain programme to increase agriculture production and productivity, by providing improved agricultural inputs and agronomic advisory services to local farmers,” he said

Mpoke-Bigg said that ETC was a pan-African agriculture conglomerate with footprint expanding across Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, Middle East and Southeast Asia, trading millions of tons in soft commodities.

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He noted that the ultimate beneficiaries of this intervention would include small holder farmers, significant number being women and youth entrepreneurs across 10 African countries, whose productivity was expected to increase from deployment of high-quality agricultural inputs.

On loan, Dr Beth Dunford, AfDB Vice President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development said that working with an African agro-champion like ETC was critical toward achieving the bank’s developmental goal.

Dunford said that the goal was to support millions of small holder farmers across the continent, contribute to increased agriculture production and food security in the process.

Also, Mr Solomon Quaynor, Vice President, Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation said that “the Bank’s investment into ETC Group would go a long way in contributing to food import substitution.

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Quaynor said that this would be done by allowing ETC to process and package agricultural products locally while increasing value-addition of export-oriented products.

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