The Hindu Business Line : Nabard jubilee seminar to focus on agri credit

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) is organising a ‘National Seminar on Agricultural Credit’ on the occasion of its silver jubilee celebrations on July 3 and 4.

In the back drop of the massive credit requirements projected for development of agriculture sector in the Eleventh Five Year Plan by the Government, the seminar also intends to focus on the challenges facing Nabard in meeting the national goals.

The seminar proposes to deliberate on some of the major issues daunting Indian agriculture such as production, productivity and technology, marketing, extension and risk management.

The challenges in scaling up of micro finance, which is evolving as one of the major tools for alleviation of poverty, will be also deliberated in the seminar.

The plenary sessions will be chaired by noted personalities such as Prof C.H. Hanumantha Rao, Chairman, CESS (Centre for Economic and Social Sciences), Prof S. Mahendra Dev, Director, CESS and Ms Shashi Rekha Rajgopalan, Board member of RBI and Nabard, according to a press release.

INAUGURATION

The seminar will be inaugurated by Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Tuesday. Dr Y.S. P. Thorat, Chairman and Dr. K G Karmakar, Managing Director, Nabard, will be guiding the deliberations.

The deceleration in agricultural growth since nineties has been a major cause of rural distress.

There is a growing focus on increasing the pace of development of agriculture and allied activities to achieve equitable growth and reduction of rural poverty and distress, the release added.

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