The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) will propose setting up of an agriculture market infrastructure fund, to ensure a better return on farmer's produce due to improved storage. Harsh Kumar Bhanwala, Chairman & Managing Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard), on the agitation by farmers and policy responses, tells Dilasha Seth. Edited excerpts:
Your assessment of the farm sector crisis?
There is indeed a distress. This is on account of realisation of farm produce in the absence of any marketing infrastructure. Only three or four states have an elaborate infrastructure for procurement -- Haryana, Punjab, Western
