Micro Finance for Agriculture in Asia

Can it Deliver

Bibliographic Data

ID13083030
AuthorsSurjit Singh (0000-0002-2386-7729, Professor and Director, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India., corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume1
Issue2
Pages241-269
Publication date2010-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMillennial Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2321-7081 • E-ISSN: 0976-3996
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097639961000100205
OpenAlexW1903241980
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This paper is an attempt to review limited Asian experience on role of micro finance in agriculture. It details peculiar features of agriculture vs micro finance. Experience in the field indicates that micro- finance can play a crucial role where all round and infrastructure development has taken place in rural areas due to private and government investments or by market forces; where productivity increases in dry land agriculture, in agricultural diversification and in the portfolio of rural livelihood options have occurred; where the risk of investment in agriculture by the poor has been lowered through insurance, irrigation and dry land agriculture technology; where people have market linkages for agricultural products; and where the poor have overcome oppressive relations, which deprive them of access to resources, markets, equal opportunity, management skills and social status. Finally, it is not either or situation, rural sector require finance and it has to be delivered to sustain communities and food security of poor countries

Agricultural economics · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Business · Diversification (marketing strategy · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Government (linguistics · Livelihood · Portfolio · FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Finance

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