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Rural Development
Explain the role of micro-credit in meeting credit requirements of the poor.
Micro–credit helps the farmers in the following manner in meeting their credit requirements:
1. It helps in empowerment of women by providing credit for their consumption purposes.
2. It helps in promoting the small savings which can be pooled and utilised in cases of emergencies.
3. It helps in saving the agriculturists from the exploitation of money lenders and traders.
4. It provides loans to farmers at reasonable interest rates repayable in small instalments.
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Explain the areas of focus while diversifying the activities to agriculture.
Define agro-processing industries.
What are the alternative channels available for agricultural marketing ? Give some examples.
What are two types of purposes for which Indian farmers require credit?
Name the two categories of agricultural finance (credit) in India?
Who occupies the prime place in non-constitutional agricultural finance in India?
Name the policy instruments as measures initiated by the Government to improve the agricultural marketing system.
Define rural development?
Name the main sources of institutional agricultural finance in India.
Give two main weaknesses of institutional agricultural finance in India.
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