Inventory credit
Subtitle: an approach to developing agricultural markets
By: by Jonathan Coulter and Andrew W. Shepherd.
Contributors: Natural Resources Institute (Great Britain); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Series: FAO Agricultural Services Bulletin, 120
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Agricultural credit -- Developing countries.; Inventory loans -- Developing countries.
Description: This paper examines requirements for successful inventory credit, drawing extensively on case-studies from Ghana, India, Mali and the Philippines. Legal issues are discussed in detail. The report cautions against targeting particular users and stresses that transactions should be profitable to both the lender and the borrower. In order to attract banks to inventory credit, it is essential to have reliable warehouse operators. The publication will be of interest to banks wishing to increase and diversify their clientele, companies involved in or interested in commercial warehousing, traders and farmers and the organizations that represent them, policy-makers concerned with trade and agriculture, and donors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 107).
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