Agricultural Credit and Extension Services: Does Their Synergy Augment Farmers’ Economic Outcomes?
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چکیده
Access to credit is essential for sustainable agricultural development. This paper evaluates the impact of formal and informal credit, access extension services, different combinations services on economic outcomes farming households in Afghanistan. study applies a quasi-experimental approach (propensity score matching) inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) analysis. The data comes from survey 277 randomly selected three districts rural results show that having has positive differentiated costs net revenue households. However, effects increase when household both services. also reveal constraints affect revenue. provides some practical implications development policymakers. First, affects farm Second, bundled with higher than provision each service separately. Therefore, more arrangement should be supplemented by farmers
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sustainability
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2071-1050']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073758