OREANDA-NEWS. October 16, 2009. The annual session of the International Confederation of Agricultural Credit took place in Lisbon (Portugal) and hosted more than 105 CICA members. JSC Belagroprombank joined CICA in 2007. Belagroprombank is an active participant in all CICA-held events, which provides opportunities for a more thorough study of world experience of operating of the agricultural sector of economy and enables the bank to apply best practices and banking technologies in agricultural lending sector of the Republic of Belarus, reported the press-centre of Belagroprombank.

The purpose of the speech delivered by the Chairman of the Board of Belagroprombank Sergey Roumas was to convince the CICA management that the Republic of Belarus should be chosen as the venue for the next annual meeting.

Thanks to the initiative of Belagroprombank the next meeting of the Central committee of the International Confederation of Agricultural Credit will be held in Minsk on April 24 – May 1, 2010. This event will strengthen business cooperation between our country and the world bank community.

The International Confederation of Agricultural Credit (CICA) is a non-profit organization, based in Zurich, Switzerland. CICA was established in 1989 and numbers more than 200 banks and organisations engaged in agricultural sector coming from 37 countries such as Credit Agricole (France), JSC Rosselkhozbank (Russia), Agricultural Bank of China (China), DZ bank AG (Germany) and other world leading banks.

CICA aims to present agricultural credit institutions and organisations on an international level, to provide member organisations with the opportunity to discuss the latest achievements and problems confronting agriculture across the world, and encourage to exchange experience, information and ideas related to agriculture financing.