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Ahmed Akhter

Akhter Ahmed

Akhter Ahmed is a Senior Research Fellow in the IFPRI’s Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit and Country Representative for IFPRI Bangladesh. He has worked on strategies for agricultural and rural development, social protection, and women’s empowerment to reduce poverty, food insecurity, and undernutrition in developing countries including Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Malawi, the Philippines, and Turkey.

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Bolster financial lifeline of livestock sector (Tribune India) 

May 01, 2023


“The Kisan Credit Card (KCC) scheme was launched by the Union Government in 1998 with the aim of providing hassle-free credit to farmers for agricultural and allied activities,” writes Tribune India, but “several states with a substantial livestock population, including UP, West Bengal, Telangana, and Bihar, do not feature among the toppers in terms of sanctioned KCC.” 

The article mentions that a recent study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) for eastern Indian states reports that access to KCC reduces the farmer’s dependency on moneylenders for borrowing credit by 25 percent. 

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