Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi: implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity and crop income

Zeller, Manfred; Diagne, Aliou; Mataya, Charles

doi:10.1016/s0169-5150(98)00027-9

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“…Small-scale cotton growers in Benin and producers of cashew nuts and tobacco in Tanzania have benefited from higher producer prices thanks to declining marketing margins and the depreciation of the real exchange rate. Similarly, following the liberalization of burley tobacco production and marketing in Malawi, increased tobacco production increased the cash income of smallholder farmers in that country (Box 5) 30 .…”

Section: Higher Export Crop Prices Have Benefited Export Crop Farmersmentioning

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The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kherallah

Delgado

Gabre-Madhin

et al. 2002

OCL

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confidence: 99%

The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kherallah

Delgado

Gabre-Madhin

et al. 2002

OCL

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“…However, there are a number of studies pointing out that smallholders successfully adopt hybrid seeds (Smale, 1995;Heisey et al, 1998;Morris, 1998;Zeller et al, 1998). Although larger farmers tend to be early adopters of new seed technologies, small-scale farmers often significantly benefit from spillover effects.…”

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Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

2007

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“…Access to production credit greatly increases household willingness to invest in higher value crops and livestock. Credit is significant for farmers to buy necessary inputs such as fertilizer, seed, crop varieties, pesticides, animal feed and so on to improve farming productivity (Zeller et al, 1998). One study by Hazarika and Alwang (2003) found that credit helps farmers shift their labor-intensive technologies to capital-intensive technology via investments in machinery and new varieties.…”

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Is Access to Agribank Credit an Effective Tool in Improving Household Income? Evidence from the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam

Luan¹,

Vu²,

Huong³

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Access to credit has been thought to be a key factor in rural development and poverty reduction. In Vietnam, the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) emerged from the mono-tier banking system in 1988 and performs as a profit-oriented commercial bank sustaining the development of rural areas. During the last two decades, the bank has clearly expanded its share of credit outstanding in total rural credit market volume and this process is in line with the trending development of the national economy. The aim of this study is to examine whether Agribank credit improves household income in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam, where the poor and ethnic minorities are overrepresented in the population. In order to create robust estimates, a joint consideration of all four matching algorithms (nearest-neighbor matching, radius matching, Kernel matching and stratification matching) is applied to the Propensity Score Matching. The study found that access to extension services, ethnicity, and total savings emerged as reliable predictors of credit access among household endowments. Loan volumes increase with total value of household assets. In addition, the impact of credit lies in the range increase of 14.56% to 43.78% of total income, 12.09% to 51.83% of per capita income and 43.64% to 111.60% of nonfarm income of household with credit access. The agricultural bank credit has contributed in improving household income in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam. Results in this study provide further support for the hypothesis that the remarkable progress in poverty reduction in the last two decades in Vietnam is partly attributed to the development of Agribank credit. Experiences of the Agribank in lending to rural areas could be worthwhile for intermediary financial institutions to support rural development in Vietnam.

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Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi: implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity and crop income

Abstract: Journal articleISI; IFPRI3EPTDP

Cited by 157 publications

References 6 publications

The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

The road half traveled: agricultural market reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

Is Access to Agribank Credit an Effective Tool in Improving Household Income? Evidence from the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam

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