We have maintained a particular focus on supporting farmers, entrepreneurs as well as small and medium scale businesses, through our various intervention  programs  such  as  the  Anchor  Borrowers Program, Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the National Collateral Registry.
The CBN recently introduced the Real Sector Support fund; a facility meant to provide cheap funding at no more than 9 percent to new projects in the Agric and Manufacturing sectors; aimed at boosting output and creating jobs. 22  27.