...Prashant Borde; Sushma Verma; Udai Jawa Purpose This study aims to provide detailed insights and identify the influential articles, sources, authors, top contributing countries and predominant themes from the literature on agricultural loans in the domain of economics and finance. Design...

...Ankit Rathee; Kuldip Singh Chhikara; Poonam Solanki Purpose The study aims to identify the major challenges encountered by Indian exporters of agricultural products in the course of fulfilling export orders. Design/methodology/approach To achieve the objectives, a questionnaire and interview...

...Shubham Kumar Sehgal Purpose Credit is an essential element in the production process in agriculture. There are two sources from which farm households can access credit: institutional sources and non-institutional or informal sources of credit. The informal sources of credit, such as moneylenders...

... management indicators were most influential during the pandemic. In addition, the study noted that low agricultural productivity during the pandemic contributed to an additional challenge in loan default rates because of various COVID-19-containing measures. Additionally, there was a lack of governance...

... between financial inclusion and post-harvest losses in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). Design/methodology/approach The study engaged data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation [FAO] for post-harvest losses. Also, it engaged data from Banque Centrale des Etats de l’Afrique de...

... eradication, food provision and employment generation for women. Originality/value This research lays out the possibility of formalizing the practice of a traditional livestock financing in an agricultural country. Livestock Financing Agriculture Rural development Emerging market...

...Masaood Moahid; Ghulam Dastgir Khan; M.D. Abdul Bari; Yuichiro Yoshida Purpose Natural calamities impair agricultural households' ability to invest in their farms. Facilitating access to agricultural credit may assist farmers in the face of negative revenue shocks. The aim of this study...

... in cold-climate states than in hot-climate states. A differentiation of farm risk attitude by hot- and cold-climate states may help agribusiness, the government and economists in their farm product offerings, farm risk management programs and agricultural finance models, respectively. Originality/value...

... demonstrates that the benefits of gender equity in access to and usage of financial services also depend on the effects of other indicators that policymakers must be aware of. In Cambodia, a lower-middle-income country located in Southeast-Asia, agriculture also plays an important role with around 40...

...Mohammed Shuaibu; Mamello Nchake Purpose This study conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between credit market conditions and agriculture output in Sub-Saharan Africa. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a two-stage least square instrumental variable and difference...

...Todd Kuethe; Todd Hubbs Purpose This study examines the relationship between economic fluctuations and financial distress in the US agricultural sector, which is associated with a large degree of financial instability. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a parsimonious model...

...Leonard Onyiriuba; E.U. Okoro Okoro; Godwin Imo Ibe Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify and review strategic government policies on agricultural financing in Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa. Four factors dictated the choice of these countries. In the first place, the study...

... programs for agricultural interventions should target resource-poor smallholder farmers. The efficiency gains can be sustained through stronger partnerships with financial institutions. Policy interventions aimed at increasing smallholder farmers’ access to production credit (e.g. through the creation...

... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only By 1850, the total population in Peru was around 2m people. Most Peruvians lived in small towns and large plantations (haciendas). The agricultural sector employed most of the population and generated much value added: in 1850 agriculture...

... The study applies the HKC in the context of agricultural risks. Compared to other advanced copulas, the HKC achieves both flexibility and parsimony. The flexibility of the HKC makes it appropriate to precisely represent various correlation structures of crop yield risks while the parsimony makes...

...Basri Savitha; Naveen Kumar K. Purpose Evaluating a portfolio of agricultural loans has become an important issue in recent years primarily due to a large number of loan defaults. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing credit repayment behavior of farmers in Karnataka...

... can be contacted at: bbrigg@ksu.edu 19 04 2016 07 06 2016 09 06 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only USA Governance Equity Finance Agriculture Cooperatives The cooperative business...

...Mamudu Abunga Akudugu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections of agricultural productivity, access to credit and farm size in Africa using Ghana as a case study. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs mixed methods – quantitative and qualitative strategies...

... institutions, insurance companies, NGOs, research institutions and universities, particularly in developing countries, will be interested to learn about the systematic review of scientific research done in the area of insurance and credit for agriculture and the possibilities for application in their own...

... specialty crop agriculture, results could be applicable to the entire industry. The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we assess the use of platforms in the Washington apples industry using a survey conducted in January-February 2010 to identify factors (e.g. operations size, mix of fruits grown...