To support agriculture in Bihar, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India have signed a $67.60 million loan that will help improve physical and institutional links. The loan is the first tranche of a $170 million multi-tranche financing facility under the Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Program, which was approved by the ADB in September, 2010 to enhance private sector investment in agribusiness infrastructure in selected regions of Bihar and Maharashtra.
The first tranche loan ($67.60 million) from the ordinary capital resources of ADB has a 25-year term, including a grace period of 5 years, commitment charges of 0.15% and interest rate in accordance with ADB’s LIBOR-based lending facility. This loan will assist better linkages for small scale farmers with processors, agribusiness entrepreneurs, and service providers along with expanding agricultural value chains in Muzaffarpur and Patna-Nalanda regions of Bihar.
The programme, which fulfills the central goal of the Government will build physical and institutional links along horticulture integrated value chains (IVCs), and will include farmers, processors, agribusiness entrepreneurs, and service providers. This will help farmers, traders and other value chain stakeholders to improve their products and processes, become competitive and adapt to changes in end markets.
Further, the other key component of the project is public-private partnerships (PPP) to design, build, finance and operate the integrated value chains. Also, through creation of additional employment opportunities along the integrated value chains and ancillary industries, this programme would enhance livelihoods by benefitting farmers, the landless poor and women thereby raising their income, and improving off-farm income opportunities for the rural poor.
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