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Agriculture is the key source of economic development in India. Most of the population of the country totally dependent on agriculture sector for their livelihood. From the last many year agriculture is one of the main sector that plays an important role in improving the GDP. But in spite of being such an important sector agriculture is facing many problems since last many decades. To generate funds for the smoothly functioning of agricultural activities is the major concern of this particular sector. All the ruling governments of India have taken multiple steps for solving this problem. Providing various credit facilities easily is one of the important steps. To improve the status of agriculture Government introduces various credit sources. There are mainly two types of agricultural credit services viz. organized and unorganized. Some of those sources are Co-operative Credit Societies, Regional Rural Banks, Land Development Banks, Commercial Banks, etc. Under this paper an attempt is made to understand the status of agriculture in India. In this paper it has also been tried to understand what various agriculture credit sources available in Indian economy are.