Prioritization of Factors affecting the delay or inability to repay bank facilities to farmers

The role of credits in agricultural development is very important, especially after implementing land reform and converting subjects to a large class of small owners, the demand has shown itself. Seasonality of agricultural productions usually creates temporary vacuum among farmers’ payments and receipts, thus farmers need to save their past incomes or financial help out of the sector in order to pay current expenses and investments in agriculture sector. Due to farmer's low income, the saving possibility is low and therefore farmers are not in a situation that they can invest in agriculture sector from their savings or purchase inputs

Considering that the aim of the study was to prioritize the factors affecting the delay and lack in repaying loans, you must first identify the payment factors, it mean that what factors are that affect the lack or delay in repayment of loans granted to farmers.So the factors affecting the delay or failure to repay the loans were identified by using the Delphi method and then prioritizing the factors will be discussed with regard to experts’ perspectives by using the analytical network process model. Analytical network process (ANP) is one of the most efficient techniques for decision making with multiple criteria that it was proposed by Thomas Almaty for the first time in 1982 and as the developed form of AHP method. In cases where lower levels affect the upper levels or elements in a same level are not independent of each other, AHP method cannot be used. ANP technique is a more general formof AHP, but it does not require the hierarchical structure and therefore it show more complex relationships between different levels of decision in network form and it considers the interactions and feedbacks between criteria and alternatives. In fact the main objective of this process is to determine the overall impact of all factors in the face together.

In the study, factors affecting repayment were divided into the five categories, including farmers, the rules of bank loan payment, banking laws, the government and agricultural Jihad. In farmers sector, the farmers’ primary earned cash had weight of0.3from 1 among five variables. The second stage is the farmer’s experience that it has allocated the weight of 0.23 percent itself. Project failure is located in the third rank. The duration of project restoration and farmer’s activity volume has less weight than other variables. The results in section of rules of bank loan payment show that lobbying in bank is in the first place with weight of 0.28. Insurance Fund was also one of the factors that its lack causes lack of immediate repayment of the loans. About bank laws, deep court sentences also were among the factors that it's lacking may lead to delay or failure to repay loans. This variable with the weight of 0.2 is among variables affecting on the loan repayment. Long process of enforcements is a factor that in bank experts’ perspective, it has weight of 0.19 percent compared to other variables. Experts’ Specialties has little weight compared to the other variables. Agriculture-related factors according to obtained suggest that the accuracy and frequency of visits from project are the most important variables among agents. Preventing the failure of the project is among the factors that had allocated the weight of25% to it. The focus of special funds is among factors that have allocated the weight of 20% to itself that it be considered as an important factor. Jihad experts’ specialty and lobbying are the factors that are not of high importance and they are in grades 4 and 5.Agents related to government that effect on the loan repayment according to the results also indicate that attention to relations in the macro-level and lobbying have high impacts on non-repayment of the granted facilities. In Agricultural Bank experts’ views, the repayment extending policy is among the factors that cause to non-repayment of the granted facilities. This variable has the weight of 25 percent among the other variables. Interest and inflation rates are the factors that have common weight in non-repayment of the granted facilities.

The results showed that in bank experts’ views, banking laws are the most important criterion that affects the absence or delay in repayment of installments. Experts believe that if the banking system enters into financial markets strongly, and it will contribute to the development of national economy. Accordingly, it was determined that lobbying in bank is the most important variable of banking laws subset, and it is the most effective factor on the lack and delay in repayment of loans; It means that if the banking legislations is performed correctly and enforced, then the payment of loans is timely and will ease the problems of lack of timely payment. On the other hand, according to bank experts, including measures that affects the delay and lack in timely payment. If the farmers have proper cash and sufficient experience in their own field, they can be successful in the timely payment.