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of credit to agriculture. The relevant data have taken from Handbook of Statistics on the Indian economy (2014) and … Report on state of Indian agriculture (2014). Research period is 1990-91 to 2013-2014. Total Number of bank branches have …
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Agriculture in Africa has been mired with a myriad of challenges ranging from internal to external. For instance, many … African small holder farmer. This article was a critical analysis of the challenges of small scale agriculture in Africa it … brief history of Indigenous agriculture, colonial era agriculture and modern day agriculture paradigm shifts. Finally SWOT …
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Inter-annual climate variability in the Southeastern US that affects farm productivity and cash flows is largely driven by the predictable El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of the ENSO anomalies on the performance of agricultural loan...
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uniqueness of agriculture in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship consists in a relatively high share of perfectly functioning …
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We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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Weather insurance is a financial instrument proposed to increase coverage of unprotected weather shocks in developing countries. Structuring sales as group-based products has been argued as a strategy to increase the attractiveness of index insurance, raising the question as to what impacts...
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Although the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the largest expenditure programme of the European Union, not much is currently known either about its beneficiaries or about how unequally payments are distributed among them. We thus create a novel - and currently the most extensive - publicly...
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managed by the Agency for Payments and Intervention for Agriculture, which registered over 1 million beneficiaries, with a …
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Agriculture is a risky and often expensive activity, where due to unpredictable weather conditions, crops may suffer … subsidies used in agriculture, as well as the role they played in changing areas, production and selling prices of agricultural …
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Purpose: This study examines agricultural lending by commercial banks and the competition they face from the Farm Credit System and non-traditional lenders, including merchants, dealers, and other input suppliers. Design/methodology/approach: We construct a measure of commercial banks' perceived...
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