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CIC commended
By JAMES KILA
THE Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC)
was commended for working in partnership with the Rural
Development Bank in reaching out to farmers with loans in the
rural districts.
RDB branch manager in Kundiawa Willie Mapa said the cordial
working relationship between officers of the bank and CIC in
reaching farmers who had loans with the bank under the smallholder
agriculture credit scheme (SACS) was doing well.
Mr Mapa also commended the CIC coffee credit guarantee scheme (CCGS)
section for serving the same farmers.
He was speaking during a ceremony at Mata village in the Kamtai
sub-district of Sinasina Yongumugl district where 54 smallholder
coffee farmers received certificates after completing a course
conducted by the CIC.
A good number of farmers, who attended the training, were farmers
who had acquired loans through the coffee credit scheme.
The farmers at the graduation also commended CIC for organising
them into cooperative marketing groups to market their coffee
produce.
Poti Kumuno, a spokesman for the Mata farmers said cooperative
marketing was certainly the way to go.
He said previously, farmers were going to the market individually
to sell their produce which was not very beneficial.
 
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