The financing of the farm has a double aspect: financing of land purchases and of the operating capital. The farm and food industries, cooperatives or not cooperatives, which are an economic extention of the farm, also demand an important financing just as the improvements of rural are as and the services necessary to the farmer. Should the farm credit be confined only to financing land purchases and the operating capital? On the contrary, following the example of the neighbour coutries, it might contribute to the development of rural life (housing, handicraft, liberal professions, tourism, rural trade, etc.). Should the farm credit organization be the « credit of the farmers » or a « financial support of the agricultural and rural economy » ? The answer depends on the amount of resources collected by the farm credit organization.
