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President Mohammadu Buhari has given a directive to raise funds to support agriculture and industry at single digit interest rate.The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, at the NACCIMA/NIRSAL agribusiness conference held yesterday in Abuja said the president stated this at the federal executive council meeting.
He disclosed that the committee, headed by the Vice President, would ensure they keeping the interest rate at 10 per cent.Stressing the need to restructure agricultural credit, he said: “At the council of ministers meeting, the president gave a directive to raise fund to support agriculture and industry at one digit interest rate.
“If we don’t keep the interest rate as minimum as it should, there is trouble ahead. Manufacturing is not so easy, other countries support agriculture, in every farm in Europe government support it with six euros per day.
Buhari orders single digit interest rate for agric loans
