Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now …, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural … to answer the question, "Is the agenda of expansion of institutional finance to agriculture unfinished?" The findings in …

. The Government of India (GoI) has supported agriculture through budgetary provisions as well as through revenues foregone …Given the importance of agriculture in any sizable country to feed its people, most countries have subsidised … agriculture in the past, be they developed countries like the United States of America or countries in the European Union or Japan …