Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment

19 Pages Posted: 12 Jul 2014

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Rabin Mazumder

Institute of Engineering and management

Chandrasekhar Chakravarty

Asia e University (AeU)

Amit K. Bhandari

RBC College; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Abstract

Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their financial requirements. The problem of loan overdue is a serious concern in different regions of the country, as it affects the recycling of funds and loses its economic viability as a lending institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India namely Central, Northern, Southern, Eastern, North-East and Western. The result suggests that the performance of credit recovery has been low in north-eastern states and high in northern and southern states. Recovery performance of credit is directly proportional to non-agricultural loan to agricultural loan, trained-untrained staff ratio and average member per society and inversely related with proportion of government capital to working capital and real growth rates at constant price. To make all PACS viable and ensure adequate and timely flow of credit, appropriate policies are required from the Reserve Bank of India in collaboration with State Governments.

Keywords: cooperative, credit, loan overdue, recovery, policy

JEL Classification: E61, F34, G21, Q13

Suggested Citation

Mazumder, Rabin and Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar and Bhandari, Amit K., Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment. IZA Discussion Paper No. 8294, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2465329 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2465329

Rabin Mazumder (Contact Author)

Institute of Engineering and management ( email )

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Chandrasekhar Chakravarty

Asia e University (AeU)

Kampung Attap
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Malaysia

Amit K. Bhandari

RBC College ( email )

Naihati
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India

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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