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Credit Flow to Farmers Raised to Rs. 4,75,000 Crore

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..... Credit Flow to Farmers Raised to Rs. 4,75,000 Crore
News and Press Release
Dated:- 28-2-2011

Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has proposed to raise the target of credit flow to th .....

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..... e farmers from Rs. 3,75,000 crore this year to Rs.4,75,000 crore in 2011-12. Banks have been asked to step up direct lending for agriculture and credit to small and marginal farmers. Presenting the .....

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..... Union Budget for 2011-12 in the Lok Sabha today, Shri Mukherjee said, the existing interest subvention scheme of providing short term crop loans to farmers at 7% interest will be continued during 2011 .....

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..... -12. He further proposed to enhance the additional subvention to 3% in 2011-12. Thus, the effective rate of interest for such farmers will be 4% per annum. In view of the enhanced target for flow of .....

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..... agriculture credit, Shri Mukherjee proposed to strengthen NABARD's capital base by infusing Rs.3000 crore, in a phased manner, as government equity. This would raise its paid-up capital to Rs.5000 cr .....

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..... ore. To enable NABARD refinance the short term crop loan of the co-operative credit institutions and Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) at concessional rates, the Finance Minister proposed a contribution of .....

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..... Rs.10,000 crore to NABARD's Short -term Rural Credit Fund for 2011-12 from the shortfall in priority sector lending by scheduled commercial banks.
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