The Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) Dr. Ezra Yakusak, has identified the inability to write credible and bankable business plans to access government intervention funds and loans from financial institutions as one of the major limitations of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
Yakusak who stated this during a training workshop on “How to write a Bankable Business Plans” noted that many of the MSMEs operators in the country faced the challenge of writing bankable business plans to attract grants and loans.
Yakusak who was represented by the State Coordinator of NEPC, Arch Benedict Itegbe, disclosed that the council is desirous of promoting the development and financial inclusiveness of MSMEs exporters for inclusive growth.
He said the training became necessary to equip MSMEs with the necessary skills and information required to assist them
in accessing finances for their export businesses and boosting the non-oil export businesses.
He said “In the global world, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)can be categorized as the driving force for the diversification of every economy and development. Financing this sector is the fuel that accelerates the growth of the industry.
“MSMEs should be eligible for financial support by the ability to develop a Bankable Business Plan with a good description, analysis or projection, other essential compact templates about the progress and performance of non-oil export businesses.
“Fund is a vital instrument or backbone of every business outfit. No MSME can survive without adequate funding, so every business requires funding to strive well in export businesses, hence the Council’s determination to grasp the need for MSMEs to acquaint themselves with the options of finances available as a necessary tool for economic development.
“This training will focus, but not limited to the following objectives:to sensitize and make MSMEs to have good understanding of various financial windows/ options available for them to access and to create an interface between MSMEs and Financial Institutions and to finance their export businesses within and outside the country”
He urged participants to take advantage of the training for the understanding of financial literacy and creditworthiness to access financial facilities for MSMEs to accelerate the growth of the enterprises, which will translate to the growth of national economy.
Speaking, the manager of Bank of Agriculture, Ondo state branch, Agunbiade Adefolaju, expressed the readiness of the bank to contually support farmers in the state for agricultural growth with a view to eradicate poverty and food insecurity
Adefolaju said the BOA will be ready to collaborate with NEPC and other organizations to finance agriculture in the state, saying more than 100 farmers have been awarded loan to finance their projects this year.
He said the bank was committed to facilitating increased credit to farmers at affordable interest rate to ensure food security, saying we have been taking care of the rural farmers and peg the interest rate to one percent per month. This is not stress farmers in payments”
He, however, commended NEPC for using the training to create a convergence of private and public sector players, investors and agricultural practitioners across the entire value chain.
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