Farmers Credit Card

Sample data edit on November 23 for SIA testing

Lead (category)

Government agency

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Agricultural Development Bank Limited

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Finance

Digital Agriculture

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Access to credit / finance Financial services Training and capacity building

Business and governance structure

Being executed by Agricultural Development Bank Limited with support and collaboration from United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Agribusiness / private organization

SMEs / agreprenuers

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

12000 farmers and 100's of SMEs (agro-dealers)

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Farmers can make purchases of agriculture goods and tools such as farming equipment, fertilisers and pesticides. It also provides access to the farmers’ finances such as making transactions and with drawing cash without having to visit a bank branch. Along with giving farmers access to credit for different transactions, this Card also acts as an identity card, which will be useful for payment verification.

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

4 Provinces of Nepal namely Madesh, Bagmati, Lumbini and Karnali Province.

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution