But two government-owned banks the National Housing Bank and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development have agreed to provide funds to finance companies so that they can offer mortgages to such buyers.
The State Bank and the Ministry of Agriculture took measures to raise the mandatory support price for farmers, trying to increase next year's cane yield.
The authors offer a number of sensible remedies to such ills, including different ways of boosting investment in public agricultural research and possible reforms at multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.