Tumu Cooperative Credit Union (TCCU) headquartered at Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality of Upper West Region has expanded financing to agro-input dealers for onward sales to smallholder farmers, especially those in hard-to-reach communities to enhance production of crops such as maize, soy, and groundnut. Training, technical assistance and pay-for-results incentives provided by USAID-supported Feed the Future Ghana Mobilizing Financing in Agriculture (MFA) Activity to 18 partner financial institutions, including TCCU, have enable them to increase lending to the agricultural sector. TCCU Project Manager, Abass Yussif, said, “Training and technical assistance from MFA enabled us to refine our existing financial products and develop new products to meet the financing needs of target value chain actors. Our new agro-inputs financing product, for example, ensures timely financing disbursements to input dealers to both stock and distribute seed and fertilizer to farmers ahead of the...