Efficiency of Service Provision

Goal: to promote various support services for agriculture such as financial, information services and extension services.

Key Highlights

  • Amret, a local microfinance institution, launched a referral program financial product nationwide, which would help service providers and farmers to access agriculture machinery loans.
  • Amret Signed Partnership Agreement with Kubota, a large distributor of agriculture machinery: to improve the performance of referral program.
  • Partnership with the Department of Extension of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DEAFF) has resulted in the establishment of MetKasekor, an ‘opening the market’ extension service for private sector. MetKasekor is now a key element of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture (ISA).