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agricultural bank

 
 
noun [C] FINANCE, BANKING

Definition

a type of bank that lends money to farmers for longer periods of time and charges them less interest than other types of banks: Stakeholders in agriculture have pressed the government to establish the newly proposed agricultural bank. → See also land bank
(Definition of agricultural bank noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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