[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive review of aflatoxin contamination, impact on health and food security, and management strategies in Pakistan

M Ajmal, W Bedale, A Akram, JH Yu - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aflatoxins (AFs) are the most important toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic fungal toxins that
routinely contaminate food and feed. While more than 20 AFs have been identified to date …

Farm risks and uncertainties: Sources, impacts and management

R Ullah, GP Shivakoti, F Zulfiqar… - Outlook on …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Owing to the variable economic and biophysical environment, agricultural activities are
subjected to variety of risks and uncertainties. Our contemporary review of the previous …

Determinants of demand for credit by smallholder farmers': a farm level analysis based on survey in Sindh, Pakistan

AA Chandio, Y Jiang, A Rehman… - Journal of Asian …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose In the develo** countries, formal credit has dominant role for the development of
agriculture sector. It increases the farmer's purchasing power for better farm inputs and …

[HTML][HTML] Factors determining farmers' access to and sources of credit: evidence from the rain-fed zone of Pakistan

A Ullah, N Mahmood, A Zeb, H Kächele - Agriculture, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the factors that affect farmers' access to agricultural credit and its role
in adopting improved agricultural technologies in the rain-fed zone of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa …

[HTML][HTML] Fertilizer consumption, water availability and credit distribution: Major factors affecting agricultural productivity in Pakistan

A Rehman, AA Chandio, I Hussain… - Journal of the Saudi …, 2019 - Elsevier
Agriculture is an important sector of Pakistan's economy, accounting for approximately 26
percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). The aim of this study was to use an …

[HTML][HTML] Factors determining subsistence farmers' access to agricultural credit in flood-prone areas of Pakistan

SE Saqib, JKM Kuwornu, S Panezia, U Ali - Kasetsart Journal of Social …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the factors influencing farmers' access to agricultural credit in a flood
disaster risk-prone area in Pakistan. Multistage sampling through a structured questionnaire …

Factors influencing farmers' adoption of agricultural credit as a risk management strategy: The case of Pakistan

S e Saqib, MM Ahmad, S Panezai, U Ali - International journal of disaster …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agriculture yield is the main source of income in all agricultural operations. It is
indispensable for farmers to ascertain and then manage production risks. Agricultural credit …

Maize production under risk: The simultaneous adoption of off-farm income diversification and agricultural credit to manage risk

S Akhtar, G Li, A Nazir, A Razzaq, R Ullah… - Journal of integrative …, 2019 - Elsevier
Farmers in Pakistan continue to produce maize under various types of risks and adopt
several strategies to manage those risks. This study is the first attempt to investigate the …

Agricultural productivity, credit and farm size nexus in Africa: a case study of Ghana

MA Akudugu - Agricultural Finance Review, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections of agricultural
productivity, access to credit and farm size in Africa using Ghana as a case study …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of financial development on agricultural productivity in South Asia.

M Zakaria, W Jun, MF Khan - Agricultural Economics/zemědělská …, 2019 - researchgate.net
The paper examines the impact of financial development on agricultural productivity in
South Asia using data for the period 1973–2015. The other variables included are physical …