@article{Nwandu:329363,
      recid = {329363},
      author = {Nwandu, P.I.},
      title = {Rural farmers' informal financial self-help groups capital  accumulation and micro credit sufficiency: Implications for  agricultural growth and development in Delta state},
      address = {2007},
      pages = {11},
      year = {2007},
      note = {9th annual conference of the Nigerian Association of  Agricultural Economists, Bauchi, Nigeria, November 5-8,  2007},
      abstract = {Nigerian Government aware of the role the rural farmers  play iri the :c'ourifty'_:S agricultural production has  been advancing credit through the formal . futa_nqial  institutions to the farmers. The credit hardly·gets through  to the farmers due ffr-t'.iffjd~l bureaucracies and  financial leaks. On the other hand, the Micro finance  institutions (MFis), which, are mostly owned by  Non-governmental Organizations (NG0s):li1pitthe credit th~t  they advance to farmers .. This study investigat~s. how one  of the'in~}gdn.ous informal financial inetllods ~ the  non-rotating self-help group. - is· being us~4Ifo(ihe rural  farmers to accumulate capital to support their agricultur~l  production: Wtm.: ~l,le achievements of this informal  method there is need for their in~orporation into. t~j'ural  finance structure through direct linkage with Development  finance institutions -El?~)- c,f the Central Bank (CBN).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329363},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329363},
}