Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 84 Issue 1

Impact of interest subvention scheme (ISS) on the behaviour of farm households: a case of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh

Shubham Kumar Sehgal

Credit is an essential element in the production process in agriculture. There are two sources from which farm households can access credit: institutional sources and…

Change in US farm sector's financial position and performance in 2020 compared to pre-pandemic expectations: An analysis using financial ratios

Anil K. Giri, Carrie Litkowski, Dipak Subedi, Tia M. McDonald

The purpose of this study is to examine how US farm sector performed in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. There were significant supply and demand shocks due to the pandemic…

Differences in financial outcomes for family and nonfamily farms

David J. Williams, Francisco Scott

Nonfamily farms are responsible for a disproportionate amount of US agriculture production. The importance of these operations to the volume of agriculture production in the…

A comparative study of capital structure compositions in grain marketing and input supply cooperatives

Jasper Grashuis, Keri Jacobs

The objective of the study is to explore explanations for the capital structure compositions of farmer cooperatives, which have a unique equity structure with allocated equity as…

Financial inclusion toward economic inclusion: empirical evidence from China’s rural household

Shan Jin, Christopher Gan, Dao Le Trang Anh

Focusing on micro-level indicators, we investigate financial inclusion levels in rural China, examining its determinants and impact on household welfare. We construct a financial…