Farm Credit East's AgEnhancement Grants

This study investigates a number of factors influencing technical efficiency of Greek farms participating in the 1994 European Union (EU) farm credit program. Technical efficiency measures are obtained within the framework of a parametric stochastic frontier. Factors showing a positive effect on technical efficiency are value of liabilities, number of hours of mechanical operation, large land size, and rental land, whereas those showing a negative effect are value of EU product subsidies, value of off-farm family income, and hired labor. The value of investments incurred by farms because of their participation in the 1994 farm credit program does not show any significant effect on technical efficiency. The predicted levels of technical efficiency indicate that the average technical efficiency of farms 3 years after participating in the 1994 farm credit program is lower than the average technical efficiency of the same farms the year before participating in the program. Thus, the program has failed to increase the efficiency of farms.

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Is change worth it? The effects of adopting modern agricultural inputs on household welfare in Rwanda

African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics ◽

10.53936/afjare.2021.16(3).16 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 216-236

Author(s):

Aimable Nsabimana ◽

Keyword(s):

Market Access ◽

Driving Forces ◽

Farm Income ◽

Household Welfare ◽

Switching Regression ◽

Adoption Decision ◽

Advisory Services ◽

Effective Dissemination ◽

Farm Credit ◽

Household Farm

This study investigates the driving factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt modern agricultural inputs (MAI) and how this affects farm household welfare in rural Rwanda. To account for heterogeneity in the MAI adoption decision and unobservable farm and household attributes, we estimate an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model. The findings reveal that size of land endowment, access to farm credit and awareness of farm advisory services are the main driving forces behind MAI adoption. The analysis further shows that MAI adoption increases household farm income, farm yield and equivalised consumption per capita. This implies that adopting MAI is the most consistent and potentially best pathway to reduce poverty among rural farmers. The study hence suggests that policymakers should align the effective dissemination of MAI information and farm advisory services, strengthen farm credit systems and improve market access – most crucially at affordable prices – among small-farmers throughout Rwanda.

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Book Reviews : 1. J. A. Hellen, Rural Economic Development in Zambia, 1890-1964. Afrika- Studien 32, Ifo-Institut Fur Wirtschaftsforschung Munchen, Munchen, Weltforum Verlag, C. Hurst, London and Humanities Press, New York, 1969, pp. 290. $ 12.00. 2. H. Amann, Energy Supply and Economic Development in East Africa. Afrika- Studien 37, Ifo-Institut Fur Wirtschaftsforschung Munchen, Munchen, Weltforum Verlag, C. Hurst, London and Humanities Press, New York, 1969, pp. 247. $ 9.50. 3. J. Vasthoff, Small Farm Credit and Development : Some Experiences in East Africa with Special Reference to Kenya. Afrika-Studien 33, Ifo-Institut Fur Wirt schaftsforschung Munchen, Munchen, Weltforum Verlag, C. Hurst, Lon don and Humanities Press, New York, 1969, pp. 137. $ 7.00

Journal of Asian and African Studies ◽

10.1177/002190967100600208 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 141-143

Author(s):

D. Walker

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Economic Development ◽

Special Reference ◽

East Africa ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Small Farm ◽

Rural Economic Development ◽

Farm Credit

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Estimating the Demand for Farm Credit in the Republican Era

The Evolution of Agricultural Credit during China’s Republican Era, 1912–1949 ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-76801-4_6 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 179-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hong Fu ◽

Calum G. Turvey

Keyword(s):

Republican Era ◽

Farm Credit

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Nong Ben Ju, the Farm Credit Bureau, and the KMT’s Agrarian Policy

The Evolution of Agricultural Credit during China’s Republican Era, 1912–1949 ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-76801-4_13 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 349-368

Author(s):

Hong Fu ◽

Calum G. Turvey

Keyword(s):

Agrarian Policy ◽

Farm Credit ◽

Credit Bureau

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Credit as a Tool of Statecraft

American Bonds ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691156750.003.0004 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 69-87

Author(s):

Sarah L. Quinn

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Central Government ◽

National Level ◽

The United States ◽

State Building ◽

Public Private Partnerships ◽

Credit Allocation ◽

Self Help ◽

Farm Credit ◽

Policy Arenas

This chapter shows how Progressives returned to the issue of farm credit distribution in the early 1900s and drew on European precedents to reframe credit allocation as a way for the central government to help people help themselves. American Progressives thus replaced their earlier, more radical farm credit politics with a more moderate vision of government-supported credit as an inexpensive way of supporting self-help. The chapter then considers the Federal Farm Loan Act (FFLA). Compared with other hallmarks of Progressive Era state building, the FFLA seems relatively unimportant. Nevertheless, it was a turning point in the use of selective credit as a tool of federal statecraft in the United States. The FFLA provided federal credit on a national level that was administered through public–private partnerships and bolstered by tax expenditures. By tracing the lead-up to this policy, one can see how Progressives forged a new array of cultural and organizational approaches to federal credit that would later proliferate across policy arenas.

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