"We have the target of providing crop loans of Rs 24,700 crore for the year 2012-13," Patil said, replying to debate initiated by senior BJP legislator Pandurang Phundkar on the six district cooperative banks which are making losses.
Forty-eight per cent of the total farm credit would be provided by co-operative banks while 52 per cent would come from nationalized banks, he said.
Loans of Rs 716 crore had been disbursed so far, he said.
"No farmer will be denied the crop loan," Patil said, stating that government would try and increase the loan disbursal to Rs 30,000 crore in the next two years. In 2010-11, state had disbursed crop loans of Rs 19,788 crore.
