Friday, June 27, 2014

Nabard hopes for budget largesse to give long-term loans

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) wants the government to announce a Rs.5,000 crore fund in the annual budget on 10 July so that it can facilitate long-term loans to farmers to build drip-irrigation facilities and buy tractors, assets that will boost farm output and stem a sharp decline in capital investment in the sector. The aim is to provide long-term loans at attractive interest rates to farmers for long-term asset creation in agriculture, said Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, chairman of Nabard, a development bank set up by the government to ensure credit flow to agriculture and promote rural development............

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