Taking Stock of the Farm Credit System: Riskier for Farm Borrowers

Measuring efficiency of the Farm Credit System

Co-operative farm credit for unemployed graduates in iran:an evaluation of the program in fars province

The Impact of Farm Credit in Pakistan

Both informal and formal loans matter in agriculture. However, formal lenders provide much more production loans than informal lenders, often at a cost (mostly loan default cost) higher than what they can recover. For example, the Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP), providing about 90 percent of formal loans in rural areas, incurs high loan default costs. Yet, like other governmen...

A Label Change for Farm Credit

Those persons employed in this nation's agribusiness industry can ill afford to ignore the balance sheet for U.S. agriculture. Preliminary estimates for 1983 suggest that production agriculture currently functions on a base of debt capital totaling $215 billion. While total assets employed have, since 1980, remained almost constant at about $1,000 billion, our farmers' equity position has actua...

Financial Trends and Needs of Cooperatives and Implications of Consolidation in the Farm Credit System