Emerging Farmers Retail Financing Product (ERFP)

When farming becomes a livelihood

When farming becomes a livelihood

Staff Writer Elia Kamati, a loan beneficiary of Agribank’s Emerging Farmers Retail Financing Product (ERFP), left his formal employment to live his passion, which is farming. He is currently a full-time farmer in the Mpungu district of the Kavango-West region, where he farms with livestock, cattle and goats. “I was a permanent employee for one of the insurance companies for 15 years and in 2007, I resigned from my full-time job to concentrate on my dream and passion which is farming and now am a full-time farmer,” Kamati narrated. Through the ERFP loan from Agribank, Kamati bought 38 heifers and two…
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