AN ANALYSIS OF GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE OF KARNATAKA STATE COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT BANK IN KARNATAKA

Abstract

Primary Agricultural Cooperative and Rural Development Banks are playing an important role in meeting the credit requirements of the rural population. The main activity of the Bank is the dispensation of long-term credit for agricultural and rural development under schematic lending approved by NABARD Bank. The lending programs are for productive purposes like integrated loans for agriculture and allied agricultural purposes under major and medium-term projects. The present study was carried out with a broad objective to examine the performance of the Karnataka State Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank (KSCARD Bank). The study has made use of secondary data (2010- 11 to 2019-20) and the analysis is carried out by using the exponential growth model which has been used to analyze the performance of KSCARD Bank. Finally, it is concluded that the lending performance has very crucial role in Long Term Credit requirements, but the status of the recovery balance of KSCARD bank is very high when compared to the demand and collection of the recovery