Agricultural Lending Guidelines

Resource from the Agriculture Finance Support Facility (AgriFin)

This resource is part of AgriFin’s collection of tools that support operational processes and policies of financial institutions serving agricultural clients. The Agricultural Lending Guidelines tool presents an extended description of how to identify and evaluate a potential client. It is highly descriptive of the process that bank staff should go through to gather, organize, and analyze information from the farming household.

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December 2012

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