Credit access through warehouse receipt system and farm productivity of Smallholder coffee farmers in Mbinga district, Tanzania

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dc.creatorMapunda, Matei E.
dc.creatorMhando, David G.
dc.creatorWaized, Betty M.
dc.date2022-07-11T10:08:10Z
dc.date2022-07-11T10:08:10Z
dc.date2018
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T08:50:32Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T08:50:32Z
dc.descriptionJournal Article
dc.descriptionThe Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) offers an opportunity to smallholder farmers by providing collateral guarantees to financial institutions to provide credit for agricultural inputs through their crops stored at the warehouses. The objective of this paper was to examine the contribution of agricultural inputs credit accessed through WRS on coffee farms productivity in Mbinga District, Tanzania. A household survey from a sample of 390 smallholder coffee farmers was conducted. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) was used to examine the impact of WRS agricultural-credit on coffee yield. Study results show that credit accessed through WRS had a significant (p≤0.05) and positive influence on coffee yield. Moreover, sex, years of schooling, and extension services had a significant effect on coffee yields. The intervention policies are needed in order to enable more farmers to access the WRS services, extension services, education and increasing women’s participation in WRS in the study area.
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dc.identifier2375-4214
dc.identifier2375-4222
dc.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4309
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90324
dc.languageen
dc.subjectcredit
dc.subjectfarm productivity
dc.subjectwarehouse receipt system
dc.subjectagricultural inputs credit
dc.subjectsmallholder coffee farmers
dc.titleCredit access through warehouse receipt system and farm productivity of Smallholder coffee farmers in Mbinga district, Tanzania
dc.typeArticle

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