Amit Shah asks cooperative banks to focus on extending more long-term financing to agriculture sector

India has 49.4 crore acres of agriculture land, highest after the US. If the entire farm land is irrigated, India can feed the whole world, amit shah added.Addressing a national conference, Shah said, "If we look back and see the last 90 years journey of long-term financing through cooperatives and how it has percolated down, if you see the data, it has not grown."

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