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ELIGIBILITY |
- Farmers – Individuals / Joint borrowers who are owner cultivators
- Tenant Farmers, Oral Lessees & Share Croppers
- SHGs or Joint Liability Groups of Farmers including tenant farmers, share croppers etc.
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| 2. |
PURPOSE |
The Kisan Credit Card Scheme aims at providing adequate and timely credit support from the banking system under a single window with a flexible and simplified procedure to the farmers for their crop/ fodder cultivation & other needs as indicated below:
- To meet the short-term credit requirements for cultivation of crops
- Post-harvest expenses
- Produce Marketing loan
- Consumption requirements of farmer household
- Working capital for maintenance of farm assets and activities allied to agriculture, like dairy animals, inland fishery etc.
- Investment credit requirement for agriculture and allied activities like pumpsets, sprayers, dairy animals etc.
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| 3. |
EXTENT OF LIMIT/ LOAN |
Need based loan should be provided on the basis of Scale of Finance as fixed by DLTC (District Level Technical Committee) – Maximum Rs. 50.00 lakh |
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MARGIN |
Production credit: Nil
Term Loan:
- Upto Rs.2 lakh – Nil
- Above Rs.2 lakh – As per Bank’s extant guidelines
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SECURITY |
For loan upto Rs. 2.00 lakh
- Primary – Hypothecation of crops and/or assets created out of Bank loan.
- Collateral – Nil
For loan above Rs. 2.00 lakh – As per Bank’s extant guidelines |
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RATE OF INTEREST* |
For loans upto Rs. 3 Lakh – 7%
For loans above Rs. 3 Lakh – As per Bank’s extant guidelines |
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*Subject to change from time to time
For more information or any query related to the scheme, kindly visit your nearest PGB branch.
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