17 Jun 2021
Following recent announcement of new COVID-19 regulations by His Excellency, the
President of the Republic of Namibia, Dr Hage Geingob, which amongst other things
limit public gatherings to a maximum of 10 people to curb the increase in infection rate,
in the country, Agribank announces the suspension of the countrywide women and
youth networking sessions with immediate effect.
The Bank in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, through its agricultural project Farming for Resilience
(F4R), partnered to embark on a countrywide series of networking sessions, targeting
women and youth in agriculture, hosted under the theme “creating women and youth
Agri-preneurs.”
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH
committed funds towards this partnership and the objective of these networking
sessions is to provide insight into the various Agribank loan products under the
Women and Youth scheme that was launched last year, while addressing obstacles
on the loan product application journey.
Free lectures, and training as well as a podcast broadcasting targeting established,
and emerging farmers also take place during these sessions.
So far, the networking sessions covered Noordoewer, Aussenkehr, Oranjemund and
Luderitz in the //Karas region as well as Maltahohe, Aranos and Rehoboth in the
Hardap region. The Bank will continue to monitor the environment and the public will
be informed when the face-to-face networking sessions will resume. In the meantime,
Agribank urges all Namibians of all walks of life to continue to adhere to the Covid-19
safety regulations, go for voluntary vaccination, as well as to regularly wash hands,
sanitise and wear their masks in order to contribute to the flattening of the infection
curve.
Loans are granted against security of fixed property, investment or any other acceptable form of security (fixed deposits, investments and surrendering value of policies). read more
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Yes, Agribank can assist you to start farming. read more