{
  "id": 19658945,
  "title": "CBN Seeks Market-driven Agricultural Lending, Repositions Credit Guarantee Scheme",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/cbn-seeks-market-driven-agricultural-lending-repositions-credit",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-12T14:08:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/11/12/cbn-seeks-market-driven-agricultural-lending-repositions-credit-guarantee-scheme/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is seeking to restructure agricultural financing by moving away from public-sector interventions to a market-driven approach. CBN Governor, Mr. Olayemi Cardoso, stated that public funds alone cannot sustainably finance the country's agricultural ambitions and that public interventions must be designed to correct market failures and reduce structural constraints. The CBN aims to shift the focus of agricultural credit guarantee arrangements from merely protecting financial institutions against loan defaults to becoming instruments for unlocking larger volumes of commercial and development finance across the agricultural value chain.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}