SBP, UAF sign MoU

FAISALABAD October 29, 2024: State Bank of Pakistan Banking Services Cooperation Faisalabad and the University of Agriculture Faisalabad have inked a memorandum of understanding meant to establish long term, sustainable and mutually beneficial cooperation in areas of financial inclusion. The MoU was inked by UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Sarwar Khan and Director- Agriculture Credit & Financial Inclusion Department SBP Abid Qamar. UAF Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Muhammad Sarwar Khan said that the MoU will bring tangible results in term of creating awareness about finance by arranging the seminars, conferences and exchange of information. He said that SBP in collaboration with UAF had launched Agriculture Financial Literacy Student Ambassador Program to educate the farming community about the agricultural financing scheme and latest agriculture trends. He said that as many as 100 UAF students are engaged in the scheme by SBP in order to create awareness in the four tehsils of Faisalabad. Waqas Kashif Bajwa-Chief Manager-SBP BSC Faisalabad, Dr Muhammad Asghar from Institute of Agriculture Resource Economics UAF, Huma Bukhari-Joint Director-FISD SBP, Nadeem Khanzada- Sr.Joint Director-Agriculture Credit & Financial Inclusion Department, State Bank attended.