Bank Loan For Farmers

SBI has a unique financial Scheme For Financing Private Cold Storage / Private Ware Houses For On lending To Farmers who has agricultural commodities to be stored in the third party warehouses or cold storages. All private cold storages/warehouses if the promoters are of good repute and Integrity, capacity of the cold storage more than 5000 MT, registered post-tax profits for the last 3 years, all their existing accounts classified as Standard asset. New cold storages can also be considered with the permission of the controlling authority.

Farmer's Land Purchase Scheme is to assist Small & Marginal farmers, Tenants Cultivators, Share Croppers and landless agricultural labourers for purchase of land. The borrowers should have a record of prompt repayment of the loan for at least two years. Good borrowers of other Banks may also eligible provided they liquidate their outstanding to other banks.

The objective of SBI agriculture loan scheme For Financing Micro Finance Institutions (MFI) or Non Govt. Organisations (NGO) is to enable the Bank to lend to MFI / NGO for on lending to SHG / JLG / Individuals and to increase the outreach by financing large number of SHG in cost effective manner, supplementing the efforts of in financing SHG.

The objectives of SBI Financing Cold Storage is to promote setting up of cold storage and reducing post harvest losses. Eligible Organisations are: Individuals / Farmers, Group Farmers / Growers, Companies, NGOs, Partnership / Proprietary Firms, Corporations, Cooperative Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees, Marketing Boards / Committees and Agricultural Industries Corporations.

The objective of SBI Agriculture Produce Marketing Loan is to help farmers avoid distress sale of their produce. To offer the facility of loan against the stocks stored in farm houses, in addition to loan against warehouse receipts.