African central banks need to develop strategic agenda for complementing fiscal policy, to bridge the wide infrastructure financing gap in the continent. This is an area that we can contribute in by finding creative financing model to help bridge this gap. 13. Ladies and gentlemen, I am aware that experienced resource persons have been assembled to lead discussions on these complex issues enumerated above.
The productivity of Indian agriculture, however, witnessed a fatigue with the average growth rate of production of wheat, rice and foodgrains during 1990–2010 coming down to 2.6 per cent, 1.4 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively.