This paper studies the impact of bank finance on Farmers on Employment Generation by age, education, cast, size, occupation in delta area and non delta area in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh. We observed that in the delta area the sample branches provided finance to the farmers more than to...

This study investigates the impact of profitability and technical efficiency among rice farming households beneficiaries of BOA loan scheme in Benue state. Primary and secondary data were used while methods employed for analyzing data include; descriptive statistics, gross margin analysis and...

Using a rare flood in April 2019 in Iran as a natural experiment, we study the role of local banks in mitigating the financial consequence of natural disasters to smallholder farmers. We find that local branches immediately react to the disaster by increasing their lending for two months...

In this paper, the effects of financing of agricultural holdings in new member states of the EU and the development of these holdings are assessed. The income of a family-owned agricultural holding was accepted as the basic measure of a holding's capability for extended reproduction and...

Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations....