Aricultural credit can contribute to the improvement of net income of a farm business by helping to create an adequate size, increase efficiency, adjust to changing technology and prices, meet seasonal fluctuations in income and expenses, protect the ...
Aricultural credit can contribute to the improvement of net income of a farm business by helping to create an adequate size, increase efficiency, adjust to changing technology and prices, meet seasonal fluctuations in income and expenses, protect the farm adverse conditions through maintenance of a credit reserve, and provide business continuity.
In recent years, technological revolution has brought about several significant changes in the structure of agriculture. The substitution of physical capital for labor and the increased use of purchased inputs has created a need for substantially more funds both in the aggregate and in a per farm basis. Over time, in spite of increasing fund demand, profit margins in agriculture have been declining steadily, so farmers have become in creasingly dependent on outside sources of fund. That has weighted interest burdens for farms. Specially, because the rate of interest charged on loans depends on following factors the lenders cost of fund; the default risk and market risk involved in the loans; loan serving costs; and inflation, which causes the real rate of interest to be less than the nomial rate the interest burdens of farms are very serious.
Therefore in order to continue efficient farm management through agricultural capital formation, it is necessary that farms should increase productivity of agriculture and farm household savings. In addition, at the policy level, it is necessary to raise the rate of agricultural growth and real income within the agricultural sector to reduce the usurious farm liabilities.