evidence: The budget proposes to substantially strengthen agri-market infrastructure. For the benefit of over 86 per cent of small and marginal farmers, 22,000 rural haats are set to be upgraded into Gramin Agricultural Markets (GrAMs). These farmers will be able to make direct sales to consumers and bulk purchasers at the GrAMs, which will be electronically linked to e-NAM (National Agriculture Market). An Agriculture Infrastructure Fund with a corpus of Rs 2,000 crore will be set up for establishing GrAMs and 585 Agricultural Produce Market Committees. "These measures to integrate rural haats to e-NAM and to increase the MSP purview mean farmers can look forward to better price realisations," said Ajay Kakra, Leader - Food and Agriculture, PwC India. To ease financing crunches, the volume of institutional credit for the agriculture sector is to be raised from Rs 10 lakh crore to Rs 11 lakh crore. The corpus of funds available to women in self-help groups is to be raised to Rs 75,000 crore by March, 2019, from Rs 42k crore in 2016-17.