Financing Schemes and Oil Palm Smallholders’ Financial Sustainability

Cluster Research Grant, 2020

Abstract

Various financing schemes are available to the oil palm smallholders but the inclusiveness and effectiveness of the available financing schemes to provide financial sustainability to oil palm smallholders remain silence. Most of the previous studies were focusing on identifying and comparing of available financing schemes but less focus on examining and producing empirical evidences related to financing schemes and financial inclusivity and sustainability. This study therefore aims to investigate available financing schemes and it inclusiveness, assess the effectiveness of current practices of available financing schemes, investigate the financial sustainability of oil palm smallholders and recommend innovative and sustained financing schemes to oil palm smallholder’s. The expected findings could help related parties to formulate inclusive and effective financing schemes which can generate financially independent smallholders in long term.

Project Leader

Norazlan Alias (Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), )