Abstract
This study examines the Determinants of Loan Repayment Among
Cooperative Farmers in Awka North L.G.A of Anambra state, Nigeria. The
study provides empirical evidence on the farmers’ socio-economic
characteristics as well as determine which of the characteristics that
influence loan repayment, the range of amount of loan applied for, amount
received and amount repaid by the cooperative farmers and organizational
factors affecting the farmers’ credit repayment ability. Findings reveled that
the joint effect of the explanatory variable in the model account for 91.9% of
the variations in the factors affecting the farmers’ credit repayment ability.
Four coefficients (educational qualification, farm size, , loan application
cost, and collateral value) are significant at 5%, 1% respectively. Age,
membership duration and income of the farmers were not significant but it
shows a positive relationship with loan repayment. There is a significant
difference between the amount of loan received and amount repaid by the
cooperative farmers. All the Organizational factors affecting the farmers’
credit repayment ability are significant at 0.000 significant level. The study
recommends that farmers can be made to improve on their repayment of
farm credit by adoption of income support measures which would serve as
panacea. Lending institutions should ensure that whoever they are lending to
meets a minimum threshold in asset value before loans are accessed. This
will help to reduce defaulters.