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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 reporting organization·Nepal location·Dec 10, 2019 → Jun 30, 2025 timeline

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Overview

About this 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.

Field coverage

100% complete

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Reported disbursement / budget

90.0%

USD 45.0M reported disbursed against USD 50.0M reported budget. This financial ratio does not measure implementation or outcomes.

Provenance

Original project evidence

1 distinct source feed across 2 recorded evidence versions. These are not independent confirmations. Links below show the latest available version for each source page, up to 50 pages.

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    https://d-portal.org/ctrack.html?aid=XM-DAC-46004-53144-001-LN3856

    Retrieved Oct 27, 2026 · Last checked Oct 27, 2026

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