National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, (IIM-A) to set up a Chair to encourage research in climate change, rural livelihood and financial inclusion, among others.
The objective of the chair is to encourage research in emerging areas such as climate change, rural livelihood, financial inclusion, value chain management, agriculture marketing and financial product development.
The chair is expected to offer inputs on issues confronting agriculture marketing and suggest innovative models to make farming a more profitable proposition for the country’s farmers. It is also expected to focus on credit-related issues of country’s farmers and inclusion thereof in the institutional credit fold.