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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
Tractor Days is a vivid journey into rural India, where the sun rises over fields of mustard and sugarcane, and the thrum of a tractor engine is as familiar as the morning rooster, lies a world rarely captured in literature; the world of rural finance. Tractor Days is a humble attempt to step into that soil. It is not about balance sheets or banking jargon. It is about people. Borrowers. Bankers. Dealers. Dreamers. And tractors—not just as machines, but
Tractor Days is a vivid journey into rural India, where the sun rises over fields of mustard and sugarcane, and the thrum of a tractor engine is as familiar as the morning rooster, lies a world rarely captured in literature; the world of rural finance. Tractor Days is a humble attempt to step into that soil. It is not about balance sheets or banking jargon. It is about people. Borrowers. Bankers. Dealers. Dreamers. And tractors—not just as machines, but as metaphors for hope, ambition, and sometimes, heartbreak.
The stories in this book unfold in a fictional Banwadi, but they echo truths from villages across India’s vast agrarian belt. They come alive in conversations under Banyan trees, in the faded pages of passbooks, in laughter, in silences, and in the uneasy pause before signing a loan document. At the centre of it all is Raghav an Agri Field Officer of one of the commercial Bank, who traverses nearby villages of Banwadi Branch with his bag of forms and his bundle of beliefs. Through his eyes, we meet mechanics with dreams, widows with grit, dealers with schemes, and borrowers with reasons; some noble, some not.
This book is for lenders who still visits fields, the farmers who still believes in credit, the policymakers who wants to understand ground truth, and the readers who simply wants to know what happens when finance meets faith on a dusty rural road. The learnings and lessons have lot to draw parallel and understand from different types of tractor borrower
This book depicts the tractor universe and its stakeholders' competitive nature. It weaves dependency and unravels the intense competition amongst lenders, dealers, manufacturers, and the linchpin of it all the user farmer. The book highlights the importance of understanding the tractor's vittanirbhar (financially dependent) nature as a machine. It also emphasises the importance of collaboration among all industry stakeholders in addressing some ethical
This book depicts the tractor universe and its stakeholders' competitive nature. It weaves dependency and unravels the intense competition amongst lenders, dealers, manufacturers, and the linchpin of it all the user farmer. The book highlights the importance of understanding the tractor's vittanirbhar (financially dependent) nature as a machine. It also emphasises the importance of collaboration among all industry stakeholders in addressing some ethical issues. The author brilliantly expands the definition of tractorpreneur to include forward-thinking methods such as TractorGiri. He demonstrates how a farmer of any experience level can learn to operate a tractor and become aatmanirbhar (self-sufficient).
The book investigates and elevates Tractornomics as groundbreaking studies of tractor lending and income generation for the socioeconomic development of marginalised farmers. The book reveals the beauty of silent Tractor-revolution created by TractorGiri, of Tractorpreneurs, by their Tractornirbhar nature, all with credit support. Let us, delve into it to understand why tractorization will continue to drive India's agricultural sector.
In the field of agriculture finance, default is the most common occurrence. Default involves a great deal of learning for it. Each default tells its own story. There are numerous factors that influence defaults. Many factors have reasons that are primarily driven by lenders. The default may be genuine or intentional, but understanding its full composition is fascinating. From the lender's perspective, it's critical to understand some of the factors that have a
In the field of agriculture finance, default is the most common occurrence. Default involves a great deal of learning for it. Each default tells its own story. There are numerous factors that influence defaults. Many factors have reasons that are primarily driven by lenders. The default may be genuine or intentional, but understanding its full composition is fascinating. From the lender's perspective, it's critical to understand some of the factors that have a dual impact on timely recovery. The success of agriculture finance is largely attributed to the underwriter's knowledge of the sector and its practical implications. Unlike other advances, where income and repayment are controlled factors in the borrower's hands, agro-climatic factors and other local influences drive repayment culture in agriculture advances.
The lender's overall dealings with the farmer while on boarding him as a borrower have a significant impact on default. Credit risk management is complicated by lenders' lack of sectoral knowledge; as a result, rural bankers who are involved in this industry will find this article useful. Let's delve deeply into a few of the aspects that I believe may be beneficial to the rural banking community in KCC while managing defaults.
Commercial banks and NBFCs are into dairy finance business since many years. Policy makers are consistently emphasizing on improving credit flow to dairy sector including all its sub segments. Recently government included working capital finance for dairy activity as one of the priority area and brought it within the ambit of interest subvention. Now Kisan Credit Card facility is available for dairy farmers.
Every financer has explored lending to
Commercial banks and NBFCs are into dairy finance business since many years. Policy makers are consistently emphasizing on improving credit flow to dairy sector including all its sub segments. Recently government included working capital finance for dairy activity as one of the priority area and brought it within the ambit of interest subvention. Now Kisan Credit Card facility is available for dairy farmers.
Every financer has explored lending to one or another sub segment of dairy and they have their own learnings. These learnings are being used for mitigating credit risk with scale up or down approach. One thing is most commonly noted that from financer’s perspective that, dairy finance to individual farmers is seen as one of the riskiest from credit point of view. This book throw light on some of the aspects associated with financing to individual farmers for start up of new dairy unit or expansion of existing mini dairy unit of cows/buffaloes (Milch animals). It also covers some of the generic aspects which need to be understood by lender while considering financing dairy units. Furthermore, there is need to have technical knowledge of dairy sector to financer for considering financing to cattle to individual farmer.
Crop analytics, from seeding to commodity marketing, provides numerous insights to various stakeholders, particularly lenders and bankers. The article discusses some of the current and anticipated future trends that will assist banks in managing crop cultivation finances much more efficiently. Adoption of analytics will herald a new era in crop loan/Kisan Credit Card (KCC) in the coming days. Various technology service providers have built their business model
Crop analytics, from seeding to commodity marketing, provides numerous insights to various stakeholders, particularly lenders and bankers. The article discusses some of the current and anticipated future trends that will assist banks in managing crop cultivation finances much more efficiently. Adoption of analytics will herald a new era in crop loan/Kisan Credit Card (KCC) in the coming days. Various technology service providers have built their business models around technology and offer customised crop cultivation services. The good news is that many farmers across the country have begun to adopt it as one of the cultivation practise enablers. Farmers pay for customised services based on crop, geography, and value; the results are encouraging, with higher yield and quality as the end result. This technology is also useful in easing the difficulties associated with crop cultivation financing
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