Microfinance as the key factor affecting farmers’ investment decision-making: cluster experiences in Impasugong, Bukidnon, the Philippines

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Microfinance as the key factor affecting farmers’ investment decision-making: cluster experiences in Impasugong, Bukidnon, the Philippines

This paper focuses on how microfinance has affected the investment decision making of squash and bitter gourd cluster farmers in Impasugong in the Southern Philippines. The farmers received loans from a microfinance institution (MFI) but because of production problems farmers were not able to meet t...

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Main Authors:	Real, R, Hualda, L, Apara, D, Concepcion, S, Batt, Peter, Murray-Prior, Roy
Other Authors:	P. J. Batt
Format:	Conference Paper
Published:	International Society of Horticultural Science 2011
Subjects:	risk support sustainability crop production loan
Online Access:	http://www.actahort.org/books/895/895_29.htm http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30691

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