Which public sector bank has tied up with Tirumala Milk Products for providing loans to dairy farmers?
Q. Which public sector bank has tied up with Tirumala Milk Products for providing loans to dairy farmers?
Answer: State Bank of India
Notes: The State Bank of India (SBI) has tied-up with Tirumala Milk Products to provide loans to dairy farmers who supply milk to the latter. As per the scheme for financing dairy units, SBI offers loans for construction of shed, and purchase of milch animals, milking machine, and chaff cutter. Apart from this, the bank also provides loans to dairy societies for modernisation and creation of infrastructure such as purchase of automatic milk collection system, purchase of transport vehicles and bulk chilling unit. The Tirumala Milk Products is a South- based company, which was acquired by France-based Groupe Lactalis in 2014.

 

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