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The Agricultural Finance Company (AFC) Holdings’ Leasing Company is gearing up for a busy winter wheat harvesting season, with the firm having released 46 combine harvesters countrywide for the programme.
The equipment is available at 22 centres.
The company, which has offered tillage and harvesting services to farmers for over 30 000 hectares since its establishment in 2021, plans to scale up support for the summer cropping season, which will be financed in part by the AFC Land and Development Bank.
AFC Leasing Company general manager Mr Shepherd Kondo said: “We have just completed maize harvesting and are now hard at work harvesting the winter wheat and we expect to cover over 25 000ha.
“We have deployed over 46 combine harvesters to support our wheat farmers.”
Through the AFC Leasing Company, farmers can hire equipment such as tractors, disc harrows, planters, combine harvesters and rippers on flexible payment terms.
He said the equipment will be deployed through 22 cluster centres, which will soon be expanded.
“We are actively looking into expanding these cluster centres to improve our accessibility and ensure farming is modernised. We want to mechanise all types of farmers and get them to be more productive for a prosperous agricultural economy.
“No farmer is too small or too big for us. We strive to leave no one behind,” said Mr Kondo.
AFC Holdings’ subsidiaries are a commercial bank (formerly Agribank), the Land and Development Bank, AFC Insurance and AFC Leasing Company.
The company was established through the unbundling of Agribank.
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