Citibank Targets Nigerian Smallholder Farmers With New Facility

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Citibank Targets Nigerian Smallholder Farmers With New Facility
Citibank Targets Nigerian Smallholder Farmers With New Facility

Citigroup Inc. has entered a partnership with Lagos-based social enterprise Babban Gona to increase lending to local smallholder farmers in a bid to boost agricultural output in Africa’s most populous country.

Babban Gona will administer a $10 million Citigroup Inc. financing to about 41,000 small farmers in the West African nation, it says in an emailed statement. Even though agriculture contributes a third of Nigeria’s economic output, it attracts less than 5% of bank loans.

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