AGRICULTURAL CREDIT STRUCTURE AND DETERMINANTS OF CREDIT REPAYMENT IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF NATORE DISTRICT

Abstract

All praises are due to Almighty Allah Who enables the authoress to pursue her higher education in the Faculty of Agribusiness Management and to complete the research as well as to submit the thesis for the degree of Master of Science (M.S) in Management and Finance. The Authoress expresses her sincere heartfelt gratitude, deep appreciation and regards to reverend teacher and research supervisor professor Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman Sarker, Department of Agricultural Statistics, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka for his affectionate encouragement, worthy inspiration, solitary instruction, valuable advice and suggestions, sympathetic cooperation, constructive criticism and scholastic supervision throught the research work and during preparing the dissertation. His guardianship, counseling, simplicity and contribution have been indelible for the authoress. The authoress expresses her indebtedness, deepest sense of gratitude to her cosupervisor

Abu Zafar Ahmed Mukul, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Finance, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka for his pragmatic contribution to the study, sincere encouragement, helpful advice, valuable suggestions and scholastic guidance during the research work. The authoress would like to express her heartfelt gratitude and profound thanks to her respected teacher Shah Johir Rayhan, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Finance, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka for his advice and cooperation in the completion of the study. The authoress expresses heartly appreciation and immense indebtedness to her honorable teacher Abu Zafar Ahmed Mukul, Chairman, Department of Management and Finance, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka for her cooperation in the completion of the study. The authoress is also greatful to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh, for granting her NST fellowship to undertake this research work. Special thanks and appreciation are due to the respondents in the study area who supplied the relevant data by sacrificing their valuable time without which it would not have been possible to complete this research work.