Impact assessment of credit programme for the tenant farmers in Bangladesh

Malek, Mohammad Abdul; Division, Evaluation; Ahasan, Abu; Hossain, Md. Amzad; Ahmed, Marya; Hossain, Marup; Reza, Md. Hasib; Red, Brac

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“…For the southern region branches, GIS mapping (see Figure A1 in the Appendix) was undertaken and the results were forwarded to the program administrators so that they could continue to expand the number of treatment intervention branches within the appropriate areas while avoiding incursions into the control areas. Because the BCUP program administrators were aware of the status of each branch in the study, it was unlikely that the program officers would disburse loans in a control branch (Malek et al 2015).…”

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“…We used baseline data and follow-up survey data at the household level from the BCUP program. A total of 4,301 households (2,155 in treatment areas and 2,146 in control areas) were randomly selected to participate in a quantitative baseline survey in 2012, and a follow-up survey was conducted in 2014 (Hossain et al 2018;Malek et al 2015). For simplicity, we focused on rice-producing farms.…”

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“…A decimal (also spelled decimel) is a unit of area in India and Bangladesh approximately equal to 1/100 acre (40.46 m²); 247 decimal=1 hectare.2 As per the taxonomy presented byHarrison and List (2004).3 The largest NGO in Bangladesh.4 The conventional production function approach does not allow us to separate technological change (frontier shift) and efficiency improvements from the overall productivity effect. We use the stochastic frontier model because it allows us to decompose these two effects, we use this approach as a tool to answer our research question.5 Hossain et al (2018),Hossain et al (2016), andMalek et al (2015) examine the impact of the BCUP program on asset holdings, aggregate welfare, and wage employment.…”

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The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

Jimi¹,

Nikolov²,

Kumbhakar³

2019

J Prod Anal

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Improving productivity among farm enterprises is important, especially in lowincome countries where market imperfections are pervasive and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of farmers. Using a field experiment involving microenterprises in Bangladesh, we estimate the impact of access to credit on the overall productivity of rice farmers, and disentangle the total effect into technological change (frontier shift) and technical efficiency changes. We find that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit results in, on average, approximately a 14 percent increase in yield, holding all other inputs constant. After decomposing the total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we find that, on average, around 11 percent of the increase in output comes from changes in technology, or frontier shift, while the remaining 3 percent is attributed to improvements in technical efficiency. The efficiency gain is higher for modern hybrid rice varieties, and almost zero for traditional rice varieties. Within the treatment group, the effect is greater among pure tenant and mixed-tenant farm households compared with farmers that only cultivate their own land.

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The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

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2019

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“…We conducted a household-level census to identify eligible households in all 240 villages (See Malek et al 2015 for details), (Hossain et al 2016). The census covered 61,322 households, among which 7,563 households fulfilled the eligibility criteria and were willing to accept an agricultural loan.…”

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Agricultural Microcredit for Tenant Farmers: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

Hossain

Reza³

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American J Agri Economics

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We study the impact of an agricultural microcredit program on the livelihoods of small, marginal, and landless tenant farmers in Bangladesh based on a Randomized Control Trial (RCT). Twenty percent of eligible households acquire at least one loan from the program within two years of the start of the intervention. Results show that access to credit has positive but imprecisely estimated effects on adoption of modern varieties (MV) of rice as well as rice yield. The microcredit program increases crop farm income but has no significant effect on total income or expenditure. Although the program does not have a significant effect on most economic outcomes, it demonstrates an increase in farm activities among the targeted farmers. Our study suggests that facilitating access to credit without addressing other constraints may not be enough to increase investment and profits of tenant farmers.

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The BRAC Approach to Small Farmer Innovations

Mazid

Malek

Hossain

2016

Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development

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BRAC is a global leader in creating large-scale opportunities for the poor. This chapter describes how small farmer innovations are being developed by BRAC Agriculture and Food Security program. In collaboration with the Government and the International Agricultural Research Centers, the program aims to achieve food security and reduce hunger and malnutrition through increased environmentally sustainable agricultural production systems. The research focus is on cereal crops (rice and maize), vegetables and oilseeds. The program is currently implementing several innovative projects targeted at small farmers. BRAC is the largest market player, especially in hybrid seed (rice and maize) production and distribution in Bangladesh, and is gradually expanding to other countries, including Liberia, Sierra Leone,

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Impact assessment of credit programme for the tenant farmers in Bangladesh

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

The effects of access to credit on productivity: separating technological changes from changes in technical efficiency

Agricultural Microcredit for Tenant Farmers: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh

The BRAC Approach to Small Farmer Innovations

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