Fri, 04 Aug 2017 10:28:31 +0000 By Buumba Chimbulu FIRST National Bank (FNB) has so far disbursed in excess of US$100 million to farmers and has since extended close to 35 per cent of its lending to the agriculture sector. Brand and communications specialist, Luke Njovu said the bank had disbursed in excess of US$100m to farmers across the country between June 2016 and February 2017. Mr. Njobvu said FNB had made the agriculture sector one of its key pillars of financing and that agriculture was a green industry hence the move by the bank to support it. “What we have done as FNB is that we have realized that agriculture is a green industry rather than mining, so in promoting agriculture, we have done two things, we have made it one of our key pillars of financing so we have extended close to 35 per cent of our lending to the agriculture sector which […]
