Micro Credit Fund and Financing of Agricultural Production in Anambra State, Nigeria

UCHE OKEKE

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

Anambra State University, Uli, Anambra State, Nigeria

E-mail: victorokeke67@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT The work examines the micro credit fund and financing of agricultural production in Anambra State, Nigeria using descriptive and inferential statistics. It looked into the number of people that received credit under the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund (ACGSF) and the fund guaranteed. The work further shows the contribution of agriculture to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The paper concludes by stating that, increasing the fund being giving to the farmers, increasing the number of recipients and improving fiscal sanction on states that failed to participate in providing fund to their farmers will increase agricultural