Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)- The central bank of Bangladesh is planning a refinancing scheme to ensure the best use of the Bangladesh Taka (BDT)-10 farmers’ accounts in the state-owned banks.
The central bank already held meetings with the UK-based Department for International Development (DFID) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to get necessary fund for the scheme. 
Under the refinancing scheme, farmers will get agriculture loan to be disbursed and recovered through their taka-10 accounts. As a result, the accounts will be more active and beneficial to farmers, a senior official of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), the country’s central bank, said.
“The central bank has planned the refinancing scheme to make the taka-10 accounts more active so the living standard of the financially excluded people, specially the farmers, could be developed by providing them with institutional financial supports,” the central banker said.
He said the central bank already discussed with different donor agencies for necessary funding for the refinancing scheme. 
A total 96,37,412 saving accounts of financially excluded people have so far been opened in different state-owned commercial banks (SCBs) and specialized banks after Bangladesh Bank (BB) ordered banks to allow farmers to open saving accounts at BDT 10 on 17 January, 2010.
According to the BB, 22,61,942 savings accounts have been opened in Soanli Bank, 14,92 646 in Janata Bank, 14,50, 021 in Agrani Bank, 4,98,450 in Rupali Bank, 25,08,447 in Bangladesh Krishi Bank, 14,30,702 in Rajshahi Krishi Bank and 249 in BASIC Bank.
 
BBN/SSR/AD-07Feb13-11:06 pm (BST)