Nerpo
Animals in Pretoria

The primary aim of NERPO is to commercialise the developing agricultural sector and ensure meaningful participation of black individuals within the mainstream commercial agribusiness sector, hence ensuring the long term sustainability of the agricultural sector in South Africa.
NERPO however believes that the budget is balanced and accommodative of all the economic challenges facing the country and that it shares the government predicament to balance social spending and economic growth.

NERPO Financial Services was incorporated in 2000 and has been involved in Agricultural Finance ever since. It is an industry leader in Agricultural development finance and has been involved in providing sustainable broad spectrum financial services to emerging farmers including credit, financial advice, short and long term insurance. It has good and sound financial management and has implemented and managed some of governments programme including Mafisa. The systems, expertise and capacity within the company can handle projects of any magnitude. There is no doubt that NERPO Financial Services will be able to deal with the financial management aspect of the programme and the human resource capacity includes chartered accountants, group accountants, bookkeepers, investment bankers and insurance managers. NERPO Livestock Credit Scheme is a livestock commodity based credit scheme which is aimed at providing credit to emerging livestock farmers for the purchase of any type of livestock, animal feed & medication, farm machinery and infrastructural improvements, as well as any form of enterprise development within the livestock value chain. The approval process of NERPO Livestock Credit Scheme Loans involves your local commodity association. In other words, your application is recommended by your fellow farmers in your area. NERPO Farm Machinery and Infrastructure Credit Fund is a credit line that provides emerging farmers with finance for infrastructural development in their farms. These include both fixed improvements and general farm machinery. What is the interest rate of NERPO Infrastructure fund? Farm Machinery and Implements Fixed Improvements eg. sheds and storage houses Irrigation, Boreholes and Water resevoirs Fencing and Handling facilities. His work experience stretches over 25 years and includes being a project manager and Agricultural Extension specialist in the former Ciskei government; a Lecturer and a Principal at Fort Cox College of agriculture and forestry. His area of speciality is agricultural and rural development with emphasis in human aspects of development. He is a writer, a researcher, agricultural skills trainer and well known and respected in the agricultural sector especially in the Red Meat Industry. After qualifying, she worked for ABSA Bank for two years where she obtained a National Certificate in Banking from the Institute of Bankers. Her vast experience includes consulting work & project management for the Seta's and holds several certificates in financial management and taxation. She completed an International Credit Analysis course in the U.S. She is currently studying for an LLB Degree with UNISA. He has been involved in both auditing and accounting services as a result he has a five years experience in that field. During his time at Horwath Lubbes he was mainly involved in auditing of small to medium companies. He joined the NERPO Financial Services (Pty) Ltd in 2009 as the Group Accountant and has been involved with all NFS projects ever since. Manish is mainly involved in financial reporting of the NERPO Group of companies but from time to time also assists the Executive Directors in proposing for new funding and projects on behalf of the NERPO Group. The primary aim of NERPO is to commercialise the developing agricultural sector and ensure meaningful participation of black individuals within the mainstream commercial agribusiness sector, hence ensuring the long term sustainability of the agricultural sector in South Africa.