Demand for loan waivers because agriculture today is not viable: Bhanwala

Nabard to propose setting up of an agriculture market infrastructure fund, says Harsh Kumar Bhanwala

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will propose setting up of an agriculture market infrastructure fund, to ensure a better return on farmer's produce due to improved storage. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman & Managing Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), on the agitation by farmers and policy responses, tells Dilasha Seth. Edited excerpts:

Your assessment of the farm sector crisis?

There is indeed a distress. This is on account of realisation of farm produce in the absence of any marketing infrastructure. Only three or four states have an elaborate infrastructure for procurement -- Haryana, Punjab, Western