Rural banks play an important role in the government’s strategy for financial competitiveness by strengthening rural economies. They serve by offering microinsurance, loans, savings and other banking services to the grassroots of the social class where access to commercial banks seems impossible.

As such, it is important that these services are made readily available and accessible to communities in the countryside--meeting credit and other financial needs of farmers, fisherfolk, cooperatives and merchants.

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