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TMI BlogFarmers Have Reasons to Smile: Agriculture Credit Increased to Rs. 5,75,000 Crore, Farmers to Get a Smart Card to Get Easy Money From ATMs.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Farmers Have Reasons to Smile: Agriculture Credit Increased to Rs. 5,75,000 Crore, Farmers to Get a Smart Card to Get Easy Money From ATMs. - News and Press Release Dated:- 16-3-2012 - News - Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 16-March-2012 13:55 IST Farmers Have Reasons to Smile: Agriculture Credit Increased to Rs. 5,75,000 Crore, Farmers to Get a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Smart Card to Get Easy Money From ATMs The Finance Minister ShriPranabMukherjee has proposed to raise the target for agricultural credit in 2012-13 to Rs. 5,75,000 crore. This represents an increase of Rs. 1,00,000crore over the target for the current year. By this step, the Finance Minister has tried to ensure that the farmers need of timely access to affordable credit is redressed. As per ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the budgetary proposals, the interest subvention scheme for providing short term crop loans to farmers at 7 per cent interest per annum will be continued in 2012-13. An additional subvention of 3 per cent will be available to prompt paying farmers. In addition, the same interest subvention on post harvest loans up to six months against negotiable warehouse receipt will also be available. This will ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... encourage the farmers to keep their produce in warehouses. The Finance Minister Shri Mukherjee proposed to allocate Rs. 10,000 crore to NABARD for refinancing the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs). ShriMukerjee said that a short term RRB credit Refinance Fund is being set up to enhance the capacity of Regional Rural Banks to disburse short term crop loans to the small and marginal farmers. In a bon ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... anza to the Kisan Credit Card(KCC) holders, the Finance Minister proposed a modification in the KCC scheme. The KCC will now be transformed into smart card which could be used at ATMs also. Thus making it an effective instrument for making agricultural credit available to the farmers in the simplest available way. To promote agricultural research the Finance Minister has proposed to set aside a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... sum of Rs. 200 crore. The Finance Minister announced to operationalise a Government owned Irrigation and Water Resource Finance Company to mobilize large resources to fund irrigation projects. DSM/DK/LS/27 - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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