<h1>Agriculture credit interest subvention links lower borrowing cost to timely repayment and enables calamity relief and restructuring.</h1> Measures to reduce farmers' debt burden include an interest subvention on short term crop loans with an additional timely repayment incentive lowering effective borrowing cost, RBI guided relief and loan restructuring for calamity affected areas with relaxed norms and priority sector treatment for loans repaying non institutional lenders.