Bank union seeks fund for agriculture infrastructure

.....In a memorandum to Prakash Bakshi, Chairman of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), who has been nominated as the Chairman for the Expert Committee on Short-term Cooperative Credit Structure, P.Balakrishnan, general secretary of the federation pointed out that in India the yield per acre is the lowest in the world. “Our farmers are not able to raise more than three tonnes per acre on an average either wheat or paddy, whereas in most of the Asian countries and the US, it is seven to 11 tonnes. Our farmers can grow more crops only if there is uninterrupted flow of water, and supply of good manure and good seeds, for which the Government should allocate substantially to ensure improvements in agriculture infrastructure”.......

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