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Micro-lending for small farmers in Bangladesh

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Rashid, Shahidur
Sharma, Manohar
Zeller, Manfred

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It has been long hypothesized that lack of access to credit is the main reason why, despite higher profitability of High Yielding Varieties (HYVs), farmers in developing countries continue to allocate a portion of their land to traditional crop varieties. The empirical testing of this hypothesis has generated a large body of literature with differing conclusions. This paper re-examines the issue in the context of a specially designed group-based lending program for small farmers in Bangladesh, who neither have access to formal sources of credit nor do they qualify to become members of other micro-credit organizations. Two measures of access to credit, credit limit and amount borrowed at a given point in time, are used to analyze the determinants of farm households' land allocation decision. Under a variety of model specifications, formulated within Heckman's two-step method, the results show that credit limits from the lending programs and informal sources are significant determinants of small farmers' decision to cultivate HYV. Authors' abstract.

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Keywords: Microfinance. ; Micro-credit programs ; South Asia. ; Credit Bangladesh. ; Small farmers. ; Land use Economic aspects. ; Households Bangladesh. ; Micro-credit programs. ; Selection bias. ; Access to credit. ; Credit limit. ; Land allocation decision. ;

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