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 159 26%
Female 31 16%
Male 128 28%

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
Belwa 54 20%
Deudakhala 70 31%
Mohamadpur 35 23%

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 Family, friends Cooperative or Microcredit Institution From a bank (formal credit) Private lender (informal)
Farmers 41 29% 15% 56% 12% 10%

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 Family, friends Cooperative or Microcredit Institution From a bank (formal credit) Private lender (informal)
Female 5 40% 0% 20% 0% 40%
Male 36 28% 17% 61% 14% 6%

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 41 56% 44%
Female 5 40% 60%
Male 36 58% 42%

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
Belwa Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 11 64%
Loan for <b>more</b> than 1 year 36%
Deudakhala Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 22 45%
Loan for <b>more</b> than 1 year 55%
Mohamadpur Loan for <b>less</b> than 1 year 8 75%
Loan for <b>more</b> than 1 year 25%

3.1.4 Farmers’ credit use

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

Number of farmers N Other To change the type crop / livestock grown / raised To make infrastructure investments To pay labour time To purchase management / production inputs
Farmers 41 15% 12% 15% 7% 51%
Female 5 0% 0% 20% 0% 80%
Male 36 17% 14% 14% 8% 47%

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

CSV community Use of the loan or credit N Percentage of farmers
Belwa Other 11 18%
To change the type crop / livestock grown / raised 27%
To make infrastructure investments 9%
To purchase management / production inputs 45%
Deudakhala Other 22 18%
To change the type crop / livestock grown / raised 9%
To make infrastructure investments 23%
To pay labour time 5%
To purchase management / production inputs 45%
Mohamadpur To pay labour time 8 25%
To purchase management / production inputs 75%

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 41 32%
Female 5 20%
Male 36 33%

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 41 22%
Female 5 20%
Male 36 22%

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 159 6%
Female 31 6%
Male 128 5%

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
Belwa 54 4%
Deudakhala 70 6%
Mohamadpur 35 9%

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 9 100%
Female 2 100%
Male 7 100%


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 9 100%
Female 2 100%
Male 7 100%

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 159 8%
Price bonus or subsidy 159 11%
Formal Contracts 159 8%

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 31 6%
Male 128 9%
Price bonus or subsidy Female 31 6%
Male 128 12%
Formal Contracts Male 128 9%

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 159 14%
Training on use of financial products or services 159 11%

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 31 19%
Male 128 12%

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 Librid Commercial / private company Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office Relative, neighbor or expert within the community Don’t know
Farmers 22 36% 23% 36% 14% 9%

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 Librid Commercial / private company Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office Relative, neighbor or expert within the community Don’t know
Female 6 33% 0% 50% 17% 17%
Male 16 38% 31% 31% 12% 6%

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)?”

Number of farmers N Percentage
Farmers 159 11%
Female 31 6%
Male 128 12%

3.4.5 Farmers’ financial training source (gender disaggregated)

Percentage of farmers, who answered to the question: “From whom did your household receive the training?”

Number of farmers N Librid Relative, neighbor or expert within the community Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office Commercial / private company
Farmers 17 41% 12% 29% 18%

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

Number of farmers N Librid Relative, neighbor or expert within the community Government agricultural extension or Meteorogical office Commercial / private company
Female 2 50% 50% 0% 0%
Male 15 40% 7% 33% 20%

2020-01-05