Rajasthan’s Last-Mile Farmers Need Credit — Here’s Which Grameen Cooperatives Are Actually Reaching Them
In Barmer district’s Chohtan tehsil, a groundnut farmer named Ramdev Bishnoi walked seventeen kilometres last monsoon season to reach the nearest bank branch — only to be told his loan application would take another forty-five days. By then, the sowing window had closed. He returned home, borrowed ₹38,000 from a local moneylender at 36% annual … Read more