BENGALURU: The reduction in the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development funding to Karnataka this year would impact interest-free loans provided to farmers. Cooperation Minister KN Rajanna said Karnataka got Rs 2,340 crore, which is over 58 per cent less than last year’s Rs 5,600 crore. Rajanna and Agriculture Minister N Chaluvarayaswamy urged the Centre to direct the NABARD …
Under various schemes, Shah said, NABARD has refinanced Rs 12 lakh crore to the rural agricultural economy to meet the needs of agriculture and farmers and to strengthen and diversify agri-production. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Wednesday that the nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government will be written in golden letters whenever the history of eradication …
The Banana Bank set up by Babu Parambath under the Niravu Farmer Producer Company in Vengeri here is now spreading its wings to 200 houses across the district thanks to support from the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development. Based on a project submitted by Mr. Parambath to Nabard, each of the houses will get five different varieties of …
VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Jagan said on Wednesday that the AP government is effecting revolutionary changes in the agriculture sector through transparent systems. Despite the Covid-linked curbs, the agriculture sector achieved a growth rate of 4.16 per cent, he said and added that the government aimed at making AP a leading state in agriculture. Revolutionary steps have been taken in this …
The Uttarakhand government has a target to certify 31% of the total agricultural land as organic in 2021 to expand the area under organic farming, said state agriculture minister Subodh Uniyal on Tuesday in Dehradun. Enabling SHGs to sell their products directly to tourists On the steps taken by the government to improve agriculture, especially in the hilly areas of …
The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has given in-principle sanction for Rs 1,568 crore worth of proposals received from agri-credit societies in 22 states under the recently launched Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure Fund, the Parliament was informed on Tuesday. ”So far, NABARD has received 3,055 proposals of PACS through state cooperative banks in 22 states for …