Cost Elasticity of demand for Agricultural Credit

Volume : (3), Issue : 211, January - 2019

Abstract : Cost elasticity of demand for agricultural credit is more than unity in all the case of farm sizes, sources of credit, and terms of credit and purpose of credit. Cost elasticity of demand for credit increases as on switches over from marginal to big farm size, institutional to non-institutional, short to long term and from production purpose to investment purpose.

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