NEW DELHI : Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a series of measures to provide credit and relief to farmers, including a ₹2 trillion credit scheme that will cover 2.5 crore farmers not possessing Kisan Credit Cards and ₹30,000 crore additional emergency working capital funding through National Bank For Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).
Towards this, the government will begin a special drive to provide concessional credit to beneficiaries of the income support scheme PM-KISAN through Kisan Credit Cards. “Nearly ₹2 trillion concessional credit will be extended to boost the farming activity.