UNIT I: Intro to Agricultural Finance Flashcards
the art and science of managing money
FINANCE
concerned with the process, institutions, markets, and instruments
FINANCE
TRUE OR FALSE
finance as a field is limited to dealing with money or cash
FALSE
since it considers wide array of financial services in a financial system
are of fin concerned with design and delivery of advice and fin products to clients/customers
FINANCIAL SERVICES
fin services constitute what 2 types of products?
TANGIBLE (money, goods used as payment)
INTANGIBLE (fin advice, services like online payments, and money tranfers)
study of mgt and provision of fin resources to the agriculture sector (crops, livestock, agri products and services, etc.)
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
pertains to the array of financial services (i.e., agricultural credit, insurance, saving, and guarantee) provided and utilized in the sector
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
used to finance agriculture-related activities such as input supply, production, distribution, wholesale, processing, and marketing
AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
the ability of an individual to obtain goods, services, or money at the present time in exchange for a promise to pay at a definite future time
CREDIT
also refers to loans granted by financial institutions to borrowers who pay credit in the form of goods, services, or money
CREDIT
IN ACCOUNTING, it pertains to the entry in an account that increases the liability, revenue, or equity accounts and decreases asset or expense accounts
CREDIT
cash loans extended by financial institutions (formal or informal, individuals or groups) to the different actors in the agri-food supply chains
AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
TRUE OR FALSE
agcredit may only be availed through cash
FALSE
it may be cash or in-kind
examples of in-kind agcredit
MATERIAL INPUTS (lent by agri-supply stores, middlemen, and other input suppliers to the producers, and the manual labor paid
using a portion of the harvest)
THE AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY CHAIN
suppliers—->farming—->
processing—->distribution—->
retail—->consumer
example of agricultural credit
Kapital Access for Young Agripreneurs (KAYA)
Agri-Negosya Loan Program
Sikat Saka
Agrarian Production Credit Program (APCP)
encompasses the range of financial services offered and used in rural areas by people of all income levels.
RURAL FINANCE
as a field of work, it enables access to farmers and all related enterprises to efficient and sustainable financial services which can promote agricultural and economic development
RURAL FINANCE
are all transactions in rural finance agricultural?
no. there are non- agricultural enterprises that operate in rural economies, and their need for financial services is provided through rural financing, and not agricultural financing
is agricultural finance merely a subset of
rural finance?
no. while a large part of agricultural finance is a subset of rural finance since agricultural activities predominantly occur in rural areas, there is still a portion of agricultural finance that is outside the subset of rural finance (i.e., urban farming/agriculture and food processing and manufacturing situated in urban areas).
range of financial services offered to and utilized by individuals or groups who belong to the low-income level in both rural and urban areas
MICROFINANCE
examples of products and services in MICROFINANCE
micro-deposits, micro-insurance, micro-enterprise loan plus, housing microfinance loans, micro-agri loans
“helping the poor help themselves”
TAGLINE OF WHICH TYPE OF FINANCE
MICROFINANCE
NATURE OF AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
FINANCING AGRICULTURE or FINANCING OTHER SECTORS
generally, risk and uncertainties involved in an enterprise can be foreseen and managed
NATURE OF AGRICULTURAL FINANCE
FINANCING AGRICULTURE or FINANCING OTHER SECTORS
ownership of land is difficult to verify as land records are not updated
FINANCING AGRICULTURE