He also pledged to create an agricultural bank and lower the national income tax.

The counts connected the city to the railway, increased agriculture and created an agricultural bank.

In 1963 the Chinese government formed another agricultural bank, and it was also merged into the central bank two years later.

Mr. Dobroiu took out loans from the agricultural bank to buy a tractor.

The state owned and controlled some 27,000 agricultural banks that served rural areas and provided production loans.

With loans from the local agricultural bank, he hired workers and over the next four years transformed the hilltop into a flourishing orchard.

He later joined the civil service and eventually became the director of the state-owned Agricultural Bank, a post he held until 1946.

Branches of the national and agricultural banks had been opened in the town and a constabulary police force was also stationed there.

Surprisingly, some analysts are taking a long look at a sector that one would assume would be particularly ravaged: the agricultural banks.

Mr. Vaut said the joint ventures he has in mind might result in the opening of a privately held agricultural bank.

It dismantled the agricultural bank that had been a primary source of investment for the agriculture and food processing sectors before World War II.

He facilitated the founding of Agricultural Banks to help finance farmers and initiated Life Insurance for government employees.

Favored tactics include assaults on constabularies and on agricultural banks, where the records of loans to farmers are ceremoniously destroyed.

The Farm Credit System has 37 banks and is a traditional competitor of small agricultural banks in farm lending.

A notable feature of this policy has been the rapid increase in the number of industrial and agricultural banks and finance corporations during the past two decades.

A plan designed to bring more money to the farming sector would allow small agricultural banks to sell billions of dollars in farm mortgages to Wall Street investors.

Additionally, one of Ionescu's proposals, regarding the establishment of an agricultural bank (Casa Rurală) won support from both parties.

In Villalba all power was in their hands: church, Mafia, agricultural banks, latifundia, all in the hands of the same family .

"The loans to financially weak, overextended farmers, whom the drought will hit hardest, have for the most part been written off by agricultural banks," Mr. Granger said.

When Zinta Vitinja wanted to open a dairy farm outside Riga, a Latvian agricultural bank turned her down because she lacked sufficient collateral.

During his work he noted the troubles of peasantry arising from moneylending and he suggested that co-operative agricultural banks be established to provide credits at reasonable rates.

Sri Pichanattu Raghavan former Manager of Agricultural bank thamarassery,who worked very hard for the development of Thamarssery town.

The decision was a victory for agricultural banks stuck with huge volumes of bad loans and a bitter defeat for insolvent farmers seeking to keep their land and equipment.

And in Zhaodong, in northeast Heilongjiang Province, even bank loans by the agricultural bank have been granted through guanxi, according to the People's Daily.

Instead, he sought to placate the huge cooperatives, agricultural banks and corporations whose control over rice growers make them a formidable political force, despite a decline in rice consumption.