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STATE BANK OF PAKISTAN - VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS

Agricultural Credit Department

Established under Section 8(3) of SBP Act 1956, is mainly responsible to meet credit needs of agriculture that being the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy generates nearly one fourth of the total out put and 44% of total employment and is the major source of foreign exchange earning.

• To operate as a focal point in SBP for all agriculture and rural finance policies, programs and projects.
• To assess/estimate the credit needs of farm & non farm sector in rural areas.
  To review the issues and challenges faced and developments taking place in agriculture and rural finance both in the country and elsewhere to develop an adequate knowledge and information base for policy formulation etc
• To formulate agri & rural finance policies in consultation with stakeholders to ensure adequate flow of institutional credit in rural areas.
• To monitor growth and trends in agri /rural finance portfolio of banks & financial institutions.
• To collect periodical agri/rural finance data for analysis, policy formulation and dissemination to general public.
• To advise Federal and Provincial Governments, Banks, Cooperative Banks & agriculture chambers on agri & rural finance issues.
• To initiate and undertake information dissemination and awareness building programs for farmers and special training programs for commercial banks.
• To build SBP rural and agriculture finance capacity
• To operate as a Secretariat for Agriculture Credit Advisory Committee (ACAC)



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Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

Capability Maturity Model or CMM is a reference model of mature practices in a specified discipline, used to assess a group’s capability to perform that discipline. In fact there are a number of CMMs. They differ by discipline (software, systems, acquisition, etc.), structure (staged versus continuous), how maturity is defined (process improvement path), and how capability is defined (institutionalization). Hence “Capability Maturity Model®” and CMM® are used by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to denote a particular class of maturity models.

Software CMM, the one we saw earlier on, is one of the many CMM models.

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