Barely few days after the Prime Minister announced higher compensation for damaged crops, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) underscored that a new scheme for interest subvention for farmers was on the anvil and would be revealed anytime soon. In the meanwhile, the earlier interest subvention scheme will continue till June 30, 2015. Reserve bank of India unveiled that Government of India was presently examining various alternative approaches for improving the efficacy of the scheme and that finalization may take some time.
Under 2014-15 scheme, interest subvention of 2% per annum is available to all commercial banks on their own funds used for short-term crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh per farmer provided the lending institutions made available short-term credit at 7% to farmers. The subvention is calculated on the crop loan amount from the date of its disbursement/drawal up to the date of actual repayment of the crop loan by the farmer or up to the due date of the loan fixed by the banks, whichever is earlier. However, this is subjected to a maximum period of one year.
Notably, this development exactly comes a week after Prime Minister announced Centre’s decision to raise by 50 per cent the quantum of compensation to farmers affected by crop losses due to recent unseasonal rains.
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