Banks and financial institutions disbursed Rs 8.99 billion in subsidised agricultural loans across Madhesh Province during fiscal year 2082/83, according to a study report by Nepal Rastra Bank. Of the province’s eight districts, Dhanusha received the largest reported allocation, at Rs 1.02 billion. The report placed Dhanusha’s share at 16.54 percent of the provincial total, while it did not identify which district received the least.
Dhanusha leads district allocations
The report’s district-level finding puts Dhanusha at the top among Madhesh’s eight districts for subsidised agricultural lending in the last fiscal year. Its reported Rs 1.02 billion allocation is the largest district figure given in the available findings. The report also described this as 16.54 percent of the province-wide total of Rs 8.99 billion.
The total reflects lending by banks and financial institutions across the province, rather than an allocation announced for a single district. The figures therefore offer a province-wide picture of subsidised agricultural loans and show how the reported lending was distributed among districts. However, the available report details do not provide a complete district-by-district breakdown, so the amounts received by the other seven districts cannot be stated here.
Provincial lending total
At Rs 8.99 billion, subsidised agricultural lending reached nearly Rs 9 billion across Madhesh in fiscal year 2082/83. The figure covers the province as a whole and comes from a Nepal Rastra Bank study report. It records lending disbursed by banks and financial institutions during the fiscal year, rather than a future target or a proposed loan programme.
The report’s finding is notable for the scale of the reported lending and for the variation identified between districts. Dhanusha’s position as the largest recipient is clear in the available details, but the report information provided does not show how the province-wide total was divided among all eight districts. Without those district figures, it is not possible to compare the remaining districts with one another or determine how closely their loan volumes followed Dhanusha’s.
What the report does not specify
Although the study identifies Dhanusha as the leading district and gives a provincial total, it does not name the district with the smallest amount of subsidised agricultural lending. That means the lowest recipient cannot be established from the reported findings available here. The report details also do not specify the number of farmers who received loans, the types of agricultural activities financed, or the terms attached to the lending.
The figures describe the amount of subsidised agricultural loans disbursed, but do not by themselves provide information about how many applications were made or how much money borrowers received individually. Nor do the available details explain the distribution of lending by institution or the reasons for differences between districts. Those points would require further district-level and programme information beyond the figures reported by Nepal Rastra Bank.
For now, the central findings are the province-wide Rs 8.99 billion total and Dhanusha’s reported lead, with Rs 1.02 billion and a stated 16.54 percent share. The report provides a measure of subsidised agricultural lending across Madhesh in fiscal year 2082/83, while leaving the smallest recipient and the full district breakdown unspecified.
