By Tsozungu Kombe
Cassava farmers in Malindi sub county in Kilifi county have been urged to form groups in a bid to secure loans from MicroFinance Fund from the Kilifi county government to bost their farming activities.
Speaking to Sacco Review in her office in Malindi town recently, Malindi sub county Co-operative Officer, Mrs Flister Moraa Ziro said that the loans from the Microfinance Fund would enable farmers to maximise cassava crop production in the area.
She stated that the Micrifinance Fund is given to people who are in registered groups for ease monitoring of the groups’ progress.
The sub county Co-operative Officer said the Microfinance Fund is a revolving fund given to registered groups to enable them expand their businesses or activities and repay the same later so that others could also benefit from the same fund.
She asked Cassava farmers to come forward and form groups in large numbers to acquire loans from the Microfinance Fund to increase their Cassava acreages as there is ready market for their crop at RIMOTO Co-operative Society, a private society, at Tezo area near Kilifi town where they can sell their Cassava crop.
She said Rimoto Co-operative Society is a processing plant and deals in Starch processing among others
