Agricultural Credit

The allied activities receive only 10 per cent of the total agricultural credit while they contribute 40 per cent of the agricultural output, said the RBI report

For the first time in domestic banking, ICICI Bank is deploying satellite data to power farm credit assessment, which it claims will reduce cost for both farmers as well as the lender

Points to data showing its diversion and uneven distribution across many states

To provide credit access to lessee cultivators, he said government think tank Niti Aayog is working to find a suitable mechanism

Attempts must be made to target the entire agricultural value chain financing: Mundra