3 Financial services

3.1 Access to credit

3.1.1 Farmers’ access to agricultural credit (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women that responded “Yes” to the question: “During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your household use a loan or credit for agricultural activities?”

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 138 10%
Female 37 11%
Male 101 10%

Percentage of farmers, from each CSV community who responded “Yes” to the question: “During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your household use a loan or credit for agricultural activities?”
CSV community N Percentage of farmers
Narayani 21 10%
Rajhar 48 8%
Tamsariya 69 12%

3.1.2 Farmers’ credit sources (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women how responded to the question: “From whom did your household borrow the money?”

Number of farmers N Community Savings group Cooperative or Microcredit Institution Family, friends From a bank (formal credit)
Farmers 13 62% 38% 8% 8%

Percentage of farmers, men or women how answered to the question: “From whom did your household borrow the money?”

Number of farmers N Community Savings group Cooperative or Microcredit Institution Family, friends From a bank (formal credit)
Female 4 25% 75% 0% 0%
Male 9 78% 22% 11% 11%

3.1.3 Farmers’ credit types (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women who answered the question: “Was this a short term or long term loan?”

Number of farmers N Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year Loan for <b>more</b> than 1 year
Farmers 14 93% 7%
Female 4 100% 0%
Male 10 90% 10%

Percentage of men or women who answered the question: “Was this a short term or long term loan?”


Percentage of farmers, from the different CSV communities who answered the question: “Was this a short term or long term loan?”

CSV community Loan term N Percentage of farmers
Narayani Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 2 100%
Rajhar Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 4 75%
Loan for <b>more</b> than 1 year 25%
Tamsariya Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 8 100%

3.1.4 Farmers’ credit use

Percentage of farmers that answered the question: “What did you or nyone in your household use the loan or credit for?”

Number of farmers N To make infrastructure investments To pay labour time To purchase management / production inputs
Farmers 14 7% 50% 43%
Female 4 0% 75% 25%
Male 10 10% 40% 50%

Percentage of men or women that answered the question: “What did you or nyone in your household use the loan or credit for?”


Percentage of farmers, from each CSV community who responded “Yes” to the question: “What did you or nyone in your household use the loan or credit for?”

CSV community Use of the loan or credit N Percentage of farmers
Narayani To pay labour time 2 50%
To purchase management / production inputs 50%
Rajhar To make infrastructure investments 4 25%
To pay labour time 75%
Tamsariya To pay labour time 8 38%
To purchase management / production inputs 62%

3.1.5 Farmers’ climate driven access to agricultural credit (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers men or women that responded “Yes” to the question:" “Was the purpose of the loan/credit intended to help to be better prepared against Climate related shocks?”

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 14 50%
Female 4 50%
Male 10 50%

Percentage of farmers from each CSV community who responded “Yes” to the question: “Was the purpose of the loan/credit intended to help to be better prepared against Climate related shocks?”


Percentage of farmers men or women that responded “Yes” to the question:" “Was the purpose of the loan/credit intended to help recover from climate relate shocks?”

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 14 21%
Female 4 25%
Male 10 20%

Percentage of farmers from each CSV community who responded “Yes” to the question: “Was the purpose of the loan/credit intended to help recover from climate relate shocks?”


3.2 Access to insurance

3.2.1 Farmers’ access to agricultural insurance (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women, who answered “Yes” to the question: “During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your household buy/had/use any insurance to cover damages in crops or animals?”

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 138 7%
Female 37 16%
Male 101 4%

Percentage of farmers, from each CSV community who responded “Yes” to the question: “During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your household buy/had/use any insurance to cover damages in crops or animals?”

CSV community N Percentage of farmers
Narayani 21 10%
Tamsariya 69 12%

3.2.2 Farmers’ agricultural insurance type

Percentage of farmers, men or women how responded to the question: “What risk was covered by the insurance?”

Number of farmers N Livestock risk
Farmers 10 100%
Female 6 100%
Male 4 100%


3.2.3 Farmers’ agricultural insurance provider (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women with agricultural insurance who responded “Yes” to the questions: " Did your or anyone in your household buy the insurance from an input dealer or insurance company? "

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 10 90%
Female 6 100%
Male 4 75%

3.2.4 Farmers’ access to “climate intended” agricultural insurance (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women how responded to the question: “”

There were no farmers mentioning that they had or brought any insurance in the monitored period, thus this indicator cannot be established.


3.2.5 Farmers’ access to insurance payouts (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women, who answered “Yes” to the question: " During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your household received payouts from the insurance provider? "

There were no farmers mentioning that they had or brought any insurance in the monitored period, thus this indicator cannot be established.


3.3 Farmers’ financial incentives from buyers or input providers

Percentage of farmers who accessed credits, bonus, price subsidies or loans from buyers or providers.

They responded Yes to any of these three questions:

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in the household receive any loans from your buyers, or from your providers of inputs or equipment? Also answer -yes- if you received products -on credit- from them?”

and/or

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your houseold receive any type of price bonus or price subsidy, to stimulate climate friendly production?”

and/or

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in the household have a formal delivery contract to sell your products?”

Type of incentive N Percentage of farmers
Farmers Credits/loans 138 8%
Price bonus or subsidy 138 56%
Formal Contracts 138 4%

3.3.1 Farmers’ financial incentives from buyers or input providers (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of men or women farmers who accessed credits, bonus, price subsidies or loans from buyers or providers.

They responded Yes to any of these three questions:

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in the household receive any loans from your buyers, or from your providers of inputs or equipment? Also answer -yes- if you received products -on credit- from them?

and/or

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in your houseold receive any type of price bonus or price subsidy, to stimulate climate friendly production?

and/or

“During the last 12 months, did you or anyone in the household have a formal delivery contract to sell your products?

Type of incentive Number of farmers N Percentage of farmers
Credits/loans Female 37 11%
Male 101 7%
Price bonus or subsidy Female 37 73%
Male 101 50%
Formal Contracts Female 37 5%
Male 101 3%

3.4 Farmers’ access to value chain training

Percentage of farmers who answered Yes to either the question: “Did you or anyone in you or anyone in your household receive training on Agri-business development?”, and/or to the question: “Did you or anyone in your household receive training on use of financial products or services (e.g. credit, insurance)?”

Number of farmers Value chain training type N Percentage of farmers
Farmers Training on Agri-business development 138 3%

3.4.1 Farmers’ access to agribusiness training (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of men and women farmers that answered “Yes” to the question: “Did you or anyone in you or anyone in your household receive training on Agri-business development?”

Number of farmers N Percentage of farmers
Female 37 3%
Male 101 3%

There were no households that received training on agricultural business development


3.4.2 Farmers’ agribusiness training source (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women how responded to the question: “From whom did you or anyone in your household receive the training?”

Number of farmers N Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office
Farmers 4 100%

Percentage of farmers, men or women how answered to the question: “From whom did you or anyone in your household receive the training?”

Number of farmers N Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office
Female 1 100%
Male 3 100%

3.4.3 Access to additional support for agribusiness training

Percentage of farmers, men or women, who answered “Yes” to the question: “Did you receive any other support from that organization?”

There were no farmers who answered the question: Did you receive any other support from that organization?

3.4.4 Farmers’ access to financial training (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women, who answered “Yes” to the question: “Did you or anyone in your household receive training on use of financial products or services (e.g. credit, insurance)?”

There were no households that received training on the use of financial products or services


3.4.5 Farmers’ financial training source (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, men or women, who answered “Yes” to the question: “From whom did you receive the training?”

There were no farmers who received other support from that organization


2019-12-04