Can Cooperation Memberships Ease Farmers’ Credit Constraints?—Evidence from Sichuan Province

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10.2991/assehr.k.200331.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cooperation membership, new agricultural entities, credit constraint

Abstract

In developing countries, credit constraints are often perceived as one of the most important market frictions hampering agricultural productivity growth in rural areas. In this context, it is important to study the causes of farmers’ credit constraints and the corresponding solutions. This paper examines the effects of farmer cooperatives in rural areas on income and poverty by applying Probit method on survey data from 8 counties in the main grain areas in Sichuan province, it finds that farmer cooperatives can significantly ease farmers’ credit constraints. It also found that the use of Internet has significantly reduced the credit constraints of farmers. Therefore it is necessary to promote the healthy development of farmers’ cooperatives.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haonan Li
AU  - Xuehao Huang
AU  - Hannuo Qiu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/02
TI  - Can Cooperation Memberships Ease Farmers’ Credit Constraints?—Evidence from Sichuan Province
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
EP  - 175
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200331.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200331.038
ID  - Li2020
ER  -