Land Bank (South Africa)

Land Bank is a specialist agricultural bank guided by a government mandate to provide financial services to the commercial farming sector and to agri-business and to make available new, appropriately designed financial products that would facilitate access to finance by new entrants to agriculture from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.Today, the Bank is a true South African development finance institution that serves all farmers equally. the Land Redistribution for Agricultural Development (LRAD), Agricultural Sector Plan and the government's Integrated Sustainable Rural Development Strategy (ISRDS) Land Bank is in the business of lending money to clients. As a development finance Institution, the Bank is also constantly looking at ways of supporting the farmer and contributing to development, without focusing on profit as the only motive.