Open AccessResponse of Livestock Farmers to Institutional Credit Use in Pakistan: A Case Study of Bahawalnagar District
Author(s) -
Tusawar Iftikhar Ahmad,
Kashif Raza,
Asad Saif
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
pakistan journal of humanities and social sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2709-801X
pISSN - 2415-007X
DOI - 10.52131/pjhss.2015.0301.0010
Subject(s) - livestock , agriculture , descriptive statistics , diversification (marketing strategy) , business , context (archaeology) , agricultural economics , proxy (statistics) , socioeconomics , agricultural science , economics , geography , statistics , environmental science , mathematics , archaeology , marketing , forestry , machine learning , computer science
Substantial dependence on agricultural production is amongst the common characteristics of developing economies. In such an economic milieu, properutilization of institutional credit—provided to livestock farmers—could reap multiple benefits for the farming communities. The present study aimed toanswer that how come social, economic, and geographical context of a livestock farmer might or might not cause to happen the proper utilization of agriculturalcredit gained. For empirical analysis, primary information was collected from a sample of 143 farmers residing in the selected district (Bahawalnagar) ofsouthern Punjab. In determining a farmer’s response toward credit use, descriptive statistics exhibited a clear role of the gender and geographical areaof the farmer; whereas the findings estimated through logistic regression signified the livestock income, off-farm income, and the herd size as the keycredit-use-determinants. The study suggests that for a loaning institute, prior information about a farmer’s income diversification may serve as a proxy topredict his/her credit-use response. In order to improve credit use efficiency, the study also favors the adoption of gender-specific and area-specific approachesfor agricultural credit disbursement.