Agricultural Financing II

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In today’s class, we will be talking more about agricultural financing. Enjoy the class!

The reason why farmers find it difficult to procure loans from banks includes the following:

High-interest rate: The percentage of interest charged on principal sum by banks is usually high and this discourages borrowing.
Lack of collateral security: Most farmers do not have items of value that they can present as collateral to secure loans from financial institutions
High level of loan defaulters: Farmers default in paying back the loan as at when due.
Diversion of loan: Some farmers divert the loan to areas for which the loans are not originally meant for.
Lack of proper farm records and accounts: Most farmers lack accurate farm records and account that can lead be used to access their creditworthiness.
Unpredictable climate can lead to crop failure. Due to various climate factors, farmers may invest so much to their farms and have a very low yield.
Lack of insurance policy: Most farmers do not insure their farms against unforeseen occurrences such as fire outbreak.
Long gestation period of plantation crops.

Theory

Explain the meaning of agricultural finance and agricultural credit
Name six sources of agricultural credit available to small scale farmers
Mention six problems associated with agricultural credit WASSCE 1990 question 10, 2014 question 10b
List four sources of agricultural credit
Explain briefly four reasons why farmers find it difficult to loans from banks (WASSCE 1997 question 9).
Briefly explain each of the following types of credit in agricultural production

In our next class, we will be talking about Agricultural Insurance. We hope you enjoyed the class.

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