| dc.description.abstract | This study is concerned with the provision and use of agricultural
credit in Uganda. At the national level it aims to provide an account
of the main sources and recipients of credit, and of the terms on which
credit is available. The major part of this account is contained in
Chapter 2, although some of the points raised there are amplified in
other chapters. The main sources of credit consadared are government
loans scheme~ operated through the Uganda Commercial Bank and primary
cooperative societies. The commercial banks are also discussed in
order to (i) identify the reasons for their unwillingness to lend to
individual farmers and (ii) to describe their crop financing activities.
Various non-institutional sources of credit including other members of
the farming community and farm labourers, are discussed in Chapter 6.
The study also contains an examination of the operation of two
government credit schemes (the Progressive Farmers' Loans Scheme and
the Cooperative Credit Scheme) in two districts of Uganda. | en |
