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Rural Enterprise Financing Project

The project will promote and finance commercial agribusiness enterprises collective owned by small farmers (collective enterprises) and individual small enterprises (individual enterprises) through Small Farmers Development Bank (SFDB), an apex development bank owned by Small Farmers Agriculture Cooperatives (SFACs). SFDB provides wholesale loans to SFACs; then SFACs relend to their small famer members. Under the project, SFACs will relend the loan proceeds to their members' collective enterprises and individual enterprises.

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USD 50.0M budget·USD 45.0M disbursed·Asian Development Bank implementer·Nepal location·Dec 10, 2019 → Jun 30, 2025 timeline

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The project will promote and finance commercial agribusiness enterprises collective owned by small farmers (collective enterprises) and individual small enterprises (individual enterprises) through Small Farmers Development Bank (SFDB), an apex development bank owned by Small Farmers Agriculture Cooperatives (SFACs). SFDB provides wholesale loans to SFACs; then SFACs relend to their small famer members. Under the project, SFACs will relend the loan proceeds to their members' collective enterprises and individual enterprises.

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