Agricultural marketing

 
NABARD in Agricultural Marketing Finance: 

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The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) was set up as an 
apex organization in the sphere of rural finance. It provides refinancing support to 
financial institutions for financing wide range of activities pertaining to agriculture and 
rural development. NABARD in addition to providing refinance facilities for agricultural 
production, also provides refinance facilities to financial institutions for development of 
infrastructure, co-operative marketing, construction of warehouses and cold storages, 
creation of transportation facilities, construction of market yards and processing of farm 
products. 
The refinance facilities available from NABARD in the sphere of agricultural marketing 
are: 
(i) Marketing of Produce – NABARD provides refinance support to the state co-
operative banks by way of short-term credit limits for assisting the co-
operative marketing societies to help the members in marketing of their 
produce at remunerative prices and also to enabling them to repay their dues 
to primary co-operative credit societies. 
(ii) Construction of Godowns and Storage Facilities – NABARD provides 
refinance support for financing of godowns and cold storages. 
(iii) Construction of Market Yards – NABARD provides refinance support for 
construction of market yards to co-operative and other banks. This also 
includes construction of various amenities in the market yards like 
construction of shops, platform, rest houses, canteen, bank and post-office 
premises. 
(iv) For Means of Transportation – NABARD makes available the refinance 
facilities for financing bullock carts, hand carts and other means for 
transportation of marketable surplus and inputs from fields to the markets. 
(v) Establishing of processing Units – NABARD makes available the refinance 
facilities for financing agro-based processing units such as rice mills, flour 
mills, oil crushing, canning of fruits and vegetable s and gur and khandsari 
units.