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The influence of credit accessibility on smallholder rice farmers’ performance in Tanzania: A case of Mbarali district

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dc.creator Mbonaga, Richard Angelo
dc.date 2020-07-30T09:05:21Z
dc.date 2020-07-30T09:05:21Z
dc.date 2019
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-05T09:48:52Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-05T09:48:52Z
dc.identifier APA
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11192/3627
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/11192/3627
dc.description A Dissertation Submitted in Partial/ Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science in Accounting and Finance of Mzumbe University
dc.description The problem of access to credit facilities is very critical to smallholder rice farmers specifically in rural areas. Several studies have been conducted to address the issue of poor access to credit facing smallholder rice farmers. However, no such study has been conducted in Tanzania, specifically in Mbarali District, where there are a good number of smallholder rice farmers. Moreover no study has attempted to assess the influence of access to credit facilities on performance of smallholder rice farmers. This study was intended to bridge this knowledge gap. The study used quantitative analysis approach to establish cause and effect relationship between variables. The study employed survey research design and three years data were collected from 300 respondents in Mbarali District. Poison Regression Model was used to estimate the factors affecting access to formal credit facilities while factors influencing production performance of smallholder rice farmers in Mbarali District, were estimated using OLS regression model. The findings revealed that collateral value, credit size, interest rate, transaction costs and savings are the main factors affecting access to credit facilities by smallholder rice farmers. Access to formal credit facilities, credit size and farm size are the factors influencing production performance of smallholder rice farmers. The study makes contribution to the knowledge on factors affecting factors affecting credit accessibility of smallholder rice farmers in Tanzania. Furthermore the study offers empirical evidence that access to formal credit facilities improves the performance of the smallholder rice farmers in Tanzania.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mzumbe University
dc.subject Credit facilities-access
dc.subject Smallholder rice farmers
dc.subject Financial services-smallholder farmers
dc.title The influence of credit accessibility on smallholder rice farmers’ performance in Tanzania: A case of Mbarali district
dc.type Thesis


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