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Microcredit and technology adoption

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  • Joko Mariyono

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of microcredit and agronomic technology on farm households’ prosperity, and to determine important factors affecting farmers’ access to microcredit and technology adoption in Indonesian intensive farming. Design/methodology/approach - The focus of the study was farmers engaging with chili-based agribusiness in rural areas. Data for this study were compiled from a survey that interviewed 250 farm households. Samples of the study were randomly selected from chili farming community in three regions of Java during 2013–2014. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Findings - Microcredit provided positive direct and indirect impacts on household prosperity. Microcredit indirectly impacted the well-being through the mediation of technology adoption. Farmers’ characteristics and agribusiness environment determined farmers’ decision to access microcredit and adopt advanced technology. Microcredit and technology have enhanced farmers’ well-being through pathways that enabled farmers to develop farming scale. Practical implications - The government should offer more alternatives to advanced technology and flexible procedures of access to credit at the same time to ensure sustained pathways of rural economic growth in Indonesia. Originality/value - This paper applied a SEM to a proposition of simultaneous causal interrelations among microcredit, technology and farmers’ prosperity.

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  • Joko Mariyono, 2018. "Microcredit and technology adoption," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 79(1), pages 85-106, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:afrpps:afr-05-2017-0033
    DOI: 10.1108/AFR-05-2017-0033
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    1. Daniel Chrisendo & Hermanto Siregar & Matin Qaim, 2021. "Oil palm and structural transformation of agriculture in Indonesia," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 52(5), pages 849-862, September.

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