Staff Reporter

Disbursement of agricultural credit by the banks is paradoxically very low when farmers are hungry for money for fresh cropping and when huge money is lying idle with the banks.
Time and again directives of the Bangladesh Bank (BB), in this regard, is also not heeded. BB, which set a target for the banks to disburse Tk 8,192 crore farm loan for post-flood recovery, recently renewed its directive to increase farm loan and ensure easy access to money for the cyclone hit farmers of the south-western districts. [Read more]