Alternative sources of financing entrepreneurial undertakings in agriculture
2017
Njegomir, Vladimir (Faculty of Law and Business Studies dr Lazar Vrkatić, Novi Sad (Serbia)) | Tepavac, Rajko (Institute for economics and finance, Belgrade (Serbia)) | Ivanišević, Nenad (Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade (Serbia))
Insufficiency of internal financial resources and limited access to external sources of capital, as one of the key problems, local agricultural producers -entrepreneurs usualy describe with high cost of capital, complicated procedures, lack of transparency in regard to the settlement of credit requests and problems with security of loans. The aim of this study is to analyze the possibilities of facilitating access to increased volume of capital for domestic entrepreneurs in agriculture by using funding sources that are applied in developed economies for financing entrepreneurs. In order to achieve the stated aim, the subject of investigation in this paper is the analysis of alternative sources of financing, which use or increased adoption in Serbia would provide greater availability of capital for agricultural producers and others across the chain of agrobusiness complex and thus the promotion of entrepreneurial activity, and consequently, greater competitiveness and greater income of domestic agricultural producers and others across the chain of agrbusiness indirectly leading to increased economic growth and improvement of the welfare.
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