Agriculture Family Loan Facility – Grow As A Family

UNIQUENESS OF THIS PRODUCT

If you have a viable family farming business on family land, mataqali or other land usage arrangement with consent of the owner of the land, then this product is tailor made for you.

But: You and your family must be involved in growing your family farming business.

CHARACTERISTICS OF TARGET CUSTOMERS

Farmers with the following characteristics are targeted:

Mode of farming – Subsistence Farmer, Semi commercial and Commercial Farmers;
Type of Farmer – Farmers producing crops or non-cane Farmers, livestock, or crop/ livestock (multi-crop) and that are covered under bilateral quarantine agreement such as eggplant, okra, pawpaw, chillies, breadfruit, rice, taro, cassava, fruits, vegetables, kava, organic products, and livestock;

Experience – Farmers with 10 years and over farming experience;
Tenure – Family Land, Mataqali Land or other land usage arrangement with no lease but an agreement in place;
Market Access – Farmer with an established market (signed contract).

LOAN PURPOSE

To obtain financing for:
• Land development;
• Farm house (preferred: climate resilient);
• Infrastructure such as farm inroads, water supply and irrigation, renewable energy etc.

ELIGIBILITY

Farmers with no formal lease throughout Fiji.
• 10 years of farming experience.
• Farmers residing on the same farm land for the last 10 years.
• Have an established market.
• MUST have immediate family participation.
• Preference given to: potential to export or producing climate resilient or organic crops.