AMA revives plans for bond

THE Agricultural Market­ing Authority (AMA) is reviving a debt instru­ment to close a persistent gap in agriculture value chain fi­nancing, betting on private cap­ital rather than state guarantees alone. The state regulator, estab­lished under the AMA Act to oversee the marketing of stra­tegic crops including tobacco, cotton, sugar, soya beans, maize and barley, is reviving…