E-Commerce and Preferential Credit to Enable Farmers’ Cooperative Financing

Le Zhang and Baogui Xin

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2024, vol. 60, issue 6, 1246-1264

Abstract: Agricultural cooperatives are pivotal in promoting agricultural industrialization but face capital shortages, needing strategic financing selection between bank loans and e-commerce. This paper uses Stackelberg game theory to examine cooperatives’ and enterprises’ optimal decision-making and motivations under different financing. It scrutinizes preferences for financing methods and explores bank credit policies and e-commerce interest rates in channel selection. Findings suggest that developing favorable policies, like encouraging green credit and e-commerce support for farmers, could significantly improve cooperatives’ financing. Expanding digital initiatives in supply chains could also enable more sustainable models. This research illuminates cooperatives’ complex decision-making and offers insights to bolster agricultural finance systems.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2023.2270135

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