... in the light of evidence from a nationally representative survey in India. Specifically, this study identifies the correlates of crop insurance access (or bundling of crop insurance and credit) and its impacts on farm income and outstanding debt. Design/methodology/approach A unit-level dataset of 34,946...

... the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) from 2003 to 2018 to estimate fixed-effects panel models correlating land tenure with the value of farm production, expenditures on repairs and maintenance, net farm income, total operator household income from farming, rate of return on assets (ROA) and rate...

...Abdul-Hanan Abdallah; Micheal Ayamga; Joseph A. Awuni Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to determine the factors contributing to farm income in the Transitional and Savanna zones of Ghana and to ascertain variations between in the same and across the two locations; and to determine...

.... We group the discussions into two categories: economic considerations, including discussions on farm income and interest rates, and regulatory and institutional considerations, such as lending regulations, shifts in underwriting practices, and sources of agricultural credit. Dr Wendong...

...Denis Nadolnyak; Xuan Shen; Valentina Hartarska 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...

...Jason Loughrey; Thia Hennessy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the potential relationship between farm income variability and off-farm employment decisions in the short and medium term for the case of Irish farm operators. Design/methodology/approach Panel probit models of off...

...Jayson Beckman; David Schimmelpfennig Purpose – The recent fluctuations in farm income remind us of the boom-bust nature of the agricultural sector. To better understand these fluctuations in farm income, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between farm income and influential...

... in understatement of leverage, overstatement of liquidity, and under reporting of year‐to‐year farm income variability measures. Originality/value By identifying these limitations, changes can be made that may result in improved measures of farm financial condition and farm household well‐being. © Emerald...

...Kenneth Poon; Alfons Weersink Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting the relative variability in farm and off‐farm income for Canadian farm operators. Design/methodology/approach Variability of farm and off‐farm income is analyzed using a dataset of 17,000 farm...

...Ashok K. Mishra; Hisham S. El‐Osta Based on two time periods (1995 and 1999), this study examines how much of the variability in total farm household income can be attributed to the variability in net farm income and in off‐farm income sources (such as income from off‐farm businesses, wages...