Ali Essossinam, Awade Nadège Essossolim
Applied Agricultural Economics and Policy, Department of Economics, University of Kara, BP: 43 Kara, Togo.
Applied Agricultural Economics and Policy, University of Ouaga 2, Burkina Faso.
Heliyon. 2019 Apr 25;5(4):e01550. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01550. eCollection 2019 Apr.
This study assesses the impact of credit constraints on soybean farmers' welfare in subsistence agriculture in Togo. In order to control potential sample selection bias, the endogenous switching regression method was adopted and data collected from a random sample of 500 soybean farmers were used. The results showed that farmers' age, being a member of the soybean organization and selling the soybean to a recognized NGO or to a private organization and growing cotton or cashew are the main determinants of access to full amount of credit. The results show a discrimination against gender in accessing the full amount of credit. Formal education and participating in the extension programs would increase farmers' welfare. Increasing land cultivation would increase women's welfare compared to men. Adopting intercropping technique as conservation agriculture has positive and significant impact on women's welfare. Moreover, having access to the full amount of credit increases soybean production by 1.35% and farmers' revenue by 1.32%, compared to farmers without having access to the full amount of credit. These results suggest the rethinking of the role of agricultural credit in soybean farmers' welfare in the study areas with great attention to the gender dimension.
本研究评估了信贷约束对多哥自给农业中大豆种植农户福利的影响。为控制潜在的样本选择偏差，采用了内生转换回归方法，并使用了从500名大豆种植农户的随机样本中收集的数据。结果表明，农户的年龄、是否为大豆组织成员、是否将大豆出售给知名非政府组织或私人组织以及是否种植棉花或腰果是获得全额信贷的主要决定因素。结果显示在获得全额信贷方面存在性别歧视。正规教育和参与推广项目会提高农户的福利。与男性相比，增加土地耕种面积会提高女性的福利。采用间作技术作为保护性农业对女性福利有积极且显著的影响。此外，与无法获得全额信贷的农户相比，获得全额信贷会使大豆产量提高1.35%，农户收入提高1.32%。这些结果表明，需要重新思考农业信贷在研究区域大豆种植农户福利中的作用，同时要高度关注性别层面。
