Improving the creditworthiness and credit security of agricultural producers

Abstract

The article examines the opportunities to increase the level of credit security of agricultural producers in the context of facilitating access to finance. In this area, the important role of producer creditworthiness in facilitating access to finance was highlighted. Approaches to assessing this ability were commented, the current level was assessed and ways to improve it were studied. The importance of promoting the activity of small and medium-sized agricultural producers in the credit market, protection of export-oriented and innovative agricultural activities, accelerating the process of improving the organizational and legal support for the development of innovative and unsecured loans was highlighted. In order to increase the interest of banks in the agricultural sector, opportunities to optimize the role of the state in the regulation of the credit market, the promotion of agricultural cooperation were explored. Proposals were made on the use of digital technologies in the field to improve the provision of credit to agricultural producers, to improve the monitoring of lending, to improve marketing activities.