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Bl.Agri summit 2026 | Funding barrier for women farmers? Is there a bias?

Banks prefer women borrowers as their rate of repayment is higher and yet over 80 per cent of women farmers are denied loans as compared to 43 per cent of men. Is there a bias? How can women, who are often the backbone of the rural economy, get more funding? This was the topic of a panel discussion titled ‘Seeds of funding’ at the businessline Agri & Commodity Summit 2026 in which Anupam Gupta, CBO, Kissandhan, Ravi Kumar, Lead Smallholder farming, South Asia, Bayer AG and Ajay Kumar Jha, Deputy General Manager, product development and marketing, SBI discussed the barriers to funding and how these can be overcome. The discussion was moderated by Subramani Ra Mancombu, Consulting Editor, businessline. -- #SeedsOfFunding#AgriCommoditySummit2026 #WomenFarmers #AgriFinance #FinancialInclusion #RuralEconomy #WomenEntrepreneurs #FarmLoans #AgriculturalFinance #GenderBias #SmallholderFarmers #AgriPolicy #Bayer #SBI #Kissandhan -- Follow us on: Website: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com Facebook:   / thehindubusinessline   Twitter:   / businessline   Instagram:   / hindu_businessline   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dT640T... Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va6b... Telegram: https://t.me/HinduBusinessLine