AN ASSESSMENT OF RURAL AGRICULTURAL FINANCING (A CASE STUDY OF GYELLESU COMMUNITY BANK ZARIA

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2005-10
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BABA SHANI, ABDUL
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The agricultural sector accounted for over 60% of the nation’s gross domestic project (GDP) at independence in 1960. With the advent of oil boom in the seventies, Nigeria witnessed increase revenue from the sales of crude oil. This led to the neglect of the agricultural sector with oil playing a catalyst and other fundamental factors such as poor planning and implementation of agricultural programmes, non-accessibility to agricultural credit among others greatly contributed. Programmes by various government such as national accelerated food production programme, operation feed the nation, the Green revolution among others have had minimal impact due to the lack of proper planning and implementation. Among problems confronting the rural farmer today is the problem of non-accessibility of agricultural credit. This has forced the rural farmer to rely move on informal source of credit as against the institutional source. Finding in the research revealed that the banks function of mobilizing funds to finance agriculture can be sustained with beneficial effect to the farmer, if the method of disbursement is fine turned to take care of the issue of collateral. This is a major hindrance for effective agricultural finance for the rural farmer as he was barely anything to offer. The study revealed among other things large patronage by the rural farmer due to the relatives easy of obtaining credit and the high exposure of the bank. Despite this success, the research identified some problems facing the bank such as the time taken to process a loan, in adequacy of loan-able funds among others. Based on the identified problems, recommendations were made for the effective performance of the bank. Such recommendations among others include, encouraging the principle of group lending, increasing the amount of loan and timely approval of loans to be disbursed.
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BEING A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL OF AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY OCTOBER, 2005
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ASSESSMENT,, RURAL,, AGRICULTURAL,, FINANCING,, CASE STUDY,, GYELLESU,, COMMUNITY BANK ZARIA
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