Economies of Scale for Small and Large Sugar Cane Farms in Kwazulu-Natal / Ekonomie Van Skaal Vir Groot en Klein Suikerrietplase in Kwazulu-Natal

The underperformance of Malawi's agricultural sector, particularly in the T/A Mpinganjira – Mangochi area, can be attributed mostly to smallholders' resistance to transitioning from traditional agriculture to a more scientific and technology-driven approach. Access to financial services, particularly finance, is one of the obstacles preventing smallholders from rising to the occasion. Using a logistic regression model inside the principle component regression framework, the aim of this study is to investigate the factors that might affect smallholders' capacity to obtain financing. The results demonstrated the influence of various factors on smallholder farmers' access to financing and their capacity to transition to a more scientific and technologically oriented agriculture sector. These factors included the amount of income from both farms and non-farm sources, pensions and remittances, farm size, availability of family labor, land ownership, savings, and repayment capacity. The results offer vital direction for the institutional setup needed to improve credit availability in Malawi.

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Economies of Scale for Small and Large Sugar Cane Farms in Kwazulu-Natal / Ekonomie Van Skaal Vir Groot en Klein Suikerrietplase in Kwazulu-Natal

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F.R. Tomlinson Gedenklesing / F.R. Tomlinson Memorial Lecture

F.R. Tomlinson Gedenklesing / F.R. Tomlinson Memorial Lecture

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An analysis of factors affecting access to credit in the smallholder agricultural sector in T/A Mpinganjira – Mangochi district

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