One of the leading Rural Community Banks in the Upper East Region, Builsa Community Bank has shown interest in empowering and equipping women farmers especially those in the rural areas with cashless loans.
The initiative, the bank says seeks to strengthen and motivate women in agriculture to boost their income levels as well as increase food production in the country.
The cashless loans the General Manager of the bank, Richard Awombadek Ajuik said will help women groups boost their farming activities and make it easy for them to pay back the loans acquired.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with A1 Radio on roles rural banks can help impact and motivate women into agricultural activities, Mr Awombadek Ajuik noted that his outfit over the years has been working with women groups in agribusiness in the Builsa District and will continue to strengthen them in that regard.
Touching on the cashless loan offer, he noted that it has helped both the bank and women who usually come for support.
“The reason we adopted the cashless offer was that we have dealt with some women in the past and realized that some of them often collect the loans and will not make good use of the money. And at the end, they will run into debt.
“So, with this cashless offer, what we do is, they come, and tell us their plans; what they want to use the money on as some will say they will want to farm maize and others too will say rice. So we will sit with them, trained them on how they should go about it.”
Explaining the number of beneficiary women that are doing business with the bank regarding the cashless offer, the manager stated that over 80 women groups in the Builsa District are currently doing business with them.
He, however, called on women farmers to see the farming activity as a business and devour to make the the the higher height of it.
Source: A1radioonline.com/ 101.1 MHz/ Moses Apiah/ Ghana
