| Abstract | Agricultural credit is considered as one of the most basic inputs for conducting all
agricultural development programmes. In India, there is an immense need for proper
agricultural credit as Indian farmers are very poor. From the very beginning, the prime source
of agricultural credit in India was moneylenders. The main objective of the study is to identify
the impact of covid, to find out about awareness and preference of consumers for agricultural
credit, to identify the beneficiaries of government scheme and to identify the problems faced
by farmers to avail credit for agriculture. Convenience sampling method has been adopted to
determine the sample size. A total of 120 farmers are taken as sample of the study. The study
makes use of statistical techniques such as simple percentage and chi-square. The finding of
the study is to the government should focus on and to support the farmers by giving more
credits with some subsidies and low interest rate.
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