IMF: 76% of CBN loans to farmers unpaid
By Reuters
08 March 2023 |
5:23 am
Data by the International Monetary Fund shows that only 24 per cent of loans collected by farmers under the anchor borrowers’ programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria has been repaid.
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