Saturday, March 14, 2015

The Benefits Of Farm Loans To Family Farmers

By Lena Stephenson


Family farmers need sufficient capital to start operating and to increase their investments. There are commercial and government loans that they can borrow money from in order to fund the operational procedures like planting crops or breeding cattle and other livestock. These can be paid for a long period of time which gives them enough time to grow their capital.

Government programs allow citizens to start their business by letting them borrow money provided that they meet all the requirements. If proven fit to make the business sustainable, they can avail farm loans. There are two kinds of loans under this, the operation and ownership. Both are approved if and only if the farmers have been denied by private commercial lending firms. Otherwise, they have to stick to their commercial cooperatives.

When the applicant is approved of the loan, he is ready to buy the fertilizers, pesticides, and some machines needed for planting, spraying, and harvesting the crops. For livestock farm, the farmer gets to fund the breeding, feeding, and immunization of the animals. These are operational processes and it is under the operating loan.

On the other hand, the starting farmers who want to own their own lands are supported financially through the farm ownership or FO loan. They also need to meet the required qualifications such as not meeting and acquiring any loan from a private lender and the capacity of the farmer to grow his investments in a period of time. The money borrowed is payable for up to forty years.

There are legal processes that have to be undergone before everything becomes valid. An agreement will be signed and all other legal arrangements will take place. The documents will have to be examined for authenticity as well.

As part of the agreement, they also need to submit to the rules and methods of payment. Loan representatives make sure that the family farmers are equally distributed with the loans they need but their background will have to be checked to avoid any form of deceit. They make intensive research before they approve the proposal of the applicant.

The two parties will reach an agreement and they will mutually perform those that are contained in the contract. After all, they will work together for the economic growth of the state they are in. And they will mutually benefit from the developments. The farmer and the government must, hence, take into account the utmost performance of their respective roles in the bargain.

The farmer benefits the government and the farm that the government grants him benefits the farmer. The challenge of making sufficient investment growth from the small farm is on. There had already been a lot of successful farmers that have extended their lands and doubled their yields.

The standard operating procedures need to be followed. If the farmer borrows, the farmer gives it back. That is how it should be. The government, on the other hand, must continue with fairness and diversity when it comes to loan approvals.




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