any other raw or small-scale processed raw material by producer organizations.
the guarantee fund: this fund, worth 500 million CFA francs, allows financial
institutions to charge interest rates lower than current rates for agricultural
promoters. The Financial institutions to host the guarantee fund are being selected.
the PPAAO competitive fund: The competitive fund for research and
development sub-projects is intended to meet the needs of research and innovation
in the agricultural sector through the implementation of activities aimed at
accelerating the adoption of easily accessible technologies, the generation and the
dissemnation of adapted technologies for the main priority commodities at the
national level. The ceiling for financing is 25 million CFA francs.
the GIZ competitive fund for rural development programme including
agriculture (Pro-DRA). This fund gives priority to actors in one of the six sectors
of ProDRA (cashew, pineapple, coffee, soya beans, poultry and wood energy-coal,
agroforestry), but the operators of other sectors are not excluded. Similarly,
funding covers only the maritime, plateaux and central regions that correspond to
the ProDRA intervention areas. The projects selected are financed for an amount
ranging from one million (1,000,000) to two million (2,000,000) CFA francs. This
funding must represent a maximum of 70% of the total project.
the Kuwait Fund: this fund, amounting to 3 million dollars, kept at UTB is
intended to: (i) grant micro-credits through the Cooperative Savings and Credit
Units of Togo (FUCEC-TOGO) for an amount of up to 5,000,000 CFA francs per
project; (ii) grant small loans through the UTB network for amounts ranging from
5,000,000 CFA francs to 25,000,000 CFAfrancs per beneficiary.
447. These various financial instruments made it possible to finance a total of 190
projects.
448. Thirteen (13) competitive projects were also selected from the PPAAO
competitive funds and financed in 2015. The project documents were also submitted
for selection by the Kuwait Fund.
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