OREANDA-NEWS. November 29, 2010. Dmirty N. Patrushev, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Russian Agricultural Bank, was elected a member of the Central Committee of International Confederation of Agricultural Credit (CICA) in the course the 40th session of General Assembly of CICA in Marrakesh, Morocco, reported the press-centre of RusAg.

CICA is an influential worldwide association of financial institutions specialized in agricultural and rural lending. Russian credit institutions are represented in CICA by Russian Agricultural Bank that, with 80% of its loans going to the agricultural commodity producers, is the leading credit institution as far as agricultural lending in Russia is concerned.

Among the members of CICA are: Credit Agricole S.A., Agricultural Bank of China, Agricultural Development Bank of China, Ziraat Bankasi AS, DZ Bank AG Deutsche Zentral-Genossenschaftsbank, Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich AG.