Agriculture is a fundamental economic activity in Macedonia which constitutes 10% of GDP over the past decade, adding related processing industry increases this share to approximately 15%-16%. During the last period of economic restructuring, agriculture played a critical role in the social and...

We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...

Governments of developing and agrarian-intensive economies such as India depend on banking channels to extend farming and agriculture credit. Agricultural credit is a priority sector lending in such countries and banks have to invariably have a part of their loan book pie allocated it`....

Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity can only be efficacious if steps in the right direction will be taken. At this juncture in the Nigerian economic history, the right step to take is to adequately finance...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence of the positive impact of the FCS lending on farm incomes which should be useful to policymakers as they consider reforms and further support for this 100-year-old major agricultural lender. Design/methodology/approach: The authors...

One of the most crucial and leading factors constraining smallholder farmers' development in developing countries like Zimbabwe is limited access to financial capital and credit especially from the formal lending institutions. This is because on one hand, these farmers fail to fulfil the formal...

Substantial dependence on agricultural production is amongst the common characteristics of developing economies. In such an economic milieu, proper utilization of institutional credit — provided to livestock farmers — could reap multiple benefits for the farming communities. The present...

In spite of investments and policy reforms, Sub-Saharan African countries lag in supplying financial services for agriculture and rural areas. New products, delivery channels, and partnerships, along with greater attention to savings, provide fresh optimism that this situation will be corrected....

Financial cooperatives and microfinance institutions (MFIs) are the two major sources of rural finance in Ethiopia. Whereas MFIs are relatively new, financial cooperatives have existed for centuries in various forms. The coexistence of two different institutions serving the same group of people,...