Uganda, March 9 -- Crop and livestock farmers in Mbarara District and the neighbouring areas have been tipped on utilising and making use of the available financial institutions by acquiring loans to better their farming practices and activities.

According to microfinance institutional managers across Africa, it is important for farmers to embrace use of microfinance loans to grow their farming practices.

Speaking at the Agro-Finance international engagement with farmers in Mbarara City, the chief executive officer of Ebo Sacco Mr Joseph Kazoba said Saccos have bridged a gap of funding small holder farmers which was left by mainstream commercial banks noting that farmers can easily get loans from Saccos to improve themselves.

"Main str...