Purpose This study aims to simulate and compare the effect of two financing schemes, Salam and conventional financing, on farmers’ cash flows. Design/methodology/approach The system dynamics simulation is used to conduct a multiple scenario-driven analysis to understand the behavior and the dynamic patterns concerning relationships among the variables in the model that are chosen and parameterized using both qualitative and quantitative data collected from West Java, Indonesia. Findings The authors affirm that farmers cannot rely solely on paddy fields and should seek other livelihoods to support their daily needs. The main finding is that the Salam scheme provides a higher income that can contribute to improving farmer welfare. The Islamic scheme also requires less adjustment than the standard scheme to meet the farmers’ needs. Research limitations/implications The probable effect of implementing the Salam method is not considered from the point of view of the financiers, as the scope of the study is limited to farmers. Furthermore, the implications of this study and recommendations for future research are presented. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study adds to the extensive literature on Salam financing by being among the first to provide a quantifiable evaluation of the Islamic method compared to its conventional counterpart.

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The financial support plays a role in the most stage of agricultural sector. There are many literatures in this field, unfortunately, none of these maps in order to give the direction for the impactful future studies. This study quantitatively analyses 224 articles on Agricultural Financing literature during ten years period. Our selected papers were gained from the indexed-Scopus database that represented by English-language articles. Using a bibliometric approach, we investigate the field’s performance and evolution of the agricultural financing literature. A significant increase in the number of publications was seen in the last period of our observation. We find the most frequent author is Turvey, CG who comes from the most relevant country. We noted that the leader of author and country are not necessarily the impactful one. However, the Agricultural Finance Review occurs as the most frequent and impactful journal. We offer future research directions on agricultural financing, rice/maize, productivity, sustainability and smallholder farmer. This study gives the information that there is a rarely occurrence of Indonesian as the country’s contributor. Therefore, there is a great opportunity for Indonesian scholars to bring a novel from Indonesia’s agricultural wisdom. We encourage Indonesian Scholars to enhance the quantity and quality publications.