Beneficial Impact Of Agricultural Value Chainfinance Of Paddy Cultivation In Kerala

Abstract

There are several obstacles that prevent smallholder farmers in poor nations from realizing their full output potential. In order to help underprivileged communities, have access to value chain financing, researchers are studying Agricultural Value Chain Finance (AVCF). A great deal of research on AVCF has been carried out using different types of agricultural farming. Among these, cultivation of paddy was still limited. However, this topic has yet to receive considerable attention based on paddy cultivation and marketing which was limited to the Palakkad District. Thus, a study was done to analyze the effectiveness of AVCF in Paddy cultivation in the Palakkad district. By using the methodology of random sampling technique, the sample has been collected from 350 respondents in Palakkad. The result showed that the AVCF approach has a leverage chain relationship with more creditworthy chain members to attract direct and indirect finance of individuals and smallholder farmers in value chains. Further, the profitability of the farmers was highly influenced by the factor of flooding, which obtained the highest significance value.