Performance of Primary Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in Karnataka

Dr. Manjuprasad C; Dr. S. Mahendrakumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : XI, November - 2019

Performance of Primary Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in Karnataka

Dr. Manjuprasad C, Dr. S. Mahendrakumar

Abstract :

Agricultural credit is one of the most essential inputs in all agricultural development programmes. The source of agriculture finance can be divided into two categories such as: Institutional finance and non-institutional finance. Particularly the primary Agricultural cooperative credit societies plays very important role in agricultural development it is considered to be the pillars of the entire cooperative edifice. The Primary Agricultural Co-operative Credit societies continue to be the main source of agricultural credit to the farmers in rural areas. This paper is carried out with a oad objective to examine the performance of primary agricultural credit co-operative societies in Karnataka for the year from 2005-06 to 2016-17 and the data analysis is carried out by the exponential growth model which has used to test the average annual growth of PACS.