TY - EJOUR AB - Financing agricultural producers is one of the most acute problems within the entire scope of economic reforms in Kazakhstan. State financial support for agriculture in Kazakhstan is episodic in nature, small in size, and seldom reaches the target recipients, while the commercial banks are reluctant to give credit to agricultural producers. Although Rural Credit Partnerships (RCP) are very promising credit institutions for the agricultural sector, there are a number of challenges to their development. This study is organized in two parts: the first part analyzes the RCP membership status among corporate farms; the second part analyzes access to RCP credit by members of rural credit partnerships (both corporate and individual farms). The results of the first part of the analysis demonstrate that large-scale corporate farms with bank credit history are more likely to be members of RCPs. The second part of the analysis shows that the purpose of a loan requested from the RCP significantly affects the probability of a member to have access to RCP credit. AU - Gaisina, Sholpan DA - 2011 DA - 2011 DO - 10.22004/ag.econ.163921 DO - doi EP - 130 EP - 114 ID - 163921 IS - 2 JF - Journal of Rural Cooperation KW - Agricultural Finance KW - Community/Rural/Urban Development KW - International Relations/Trade KW - agricultural finance KW - credit cooperatives KW - access to credit L1 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163921/files/Gaisina%20jrc39-2_2011_.pdf L2 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163921/files/Gaisina%20jrc39-2_2011_.pdf L4 - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163921/files/Gaisina%20jrc39-2_2011_.pdf LA - eng LA - English LK - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163921/files/Gaisina%20jrc39-2_2011_.pdf N2 - Financing agricultural producers is one of the most acute problems within the entire scope of economic reforms in Kazakhstan. State financial support for agriculture in Kazakhstan is episodic in nature, small in size, and seldom reaches the target recipients, while the commercial banks are reluctant to give credit to agricultural producers. Although Rural Credit Partnerships (RCP) are very promising credit institutions for the agricultural sector, there are a number of challenges to their development. This study is organized in two parts: the first part analyzes the RCP membership status among corporate farms; the second part analyzes access to RCP credit by members of rural credit partnerships (both corporate and individual farms). The results of the first part of the analysis demonstrate that large-scale corporate farms with bank credit history are more likely to be members of RCPs. The second part of the analysis shows that the purpose of a loan requested from the RCP significantly affects the probability of a member to have access to RCP credit. PY - 2011 PY - 2011 SP - 114 T1 - Credit through Rural Credit Partnerships for Agricultural Producers in Kazakhstan TI - Credit through Rural Credit Partnerships for Agricultural Producers in Kazakhstan UR - https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/163921/files/Gaisina%20jrc39-2_2011_.pdf VL - 39 Y1 - 2011 T2 - Journal of Rural Cooperation ER -