Financing Agriculture through Islamic Modes And Instruments: Practical Scenarios And Applicability

This is an examination of the functional and operational activities done during production and marketing of agricultural commodities and contemporary Islamic modes that Islamic banks use to finance them and assesses the possibility of financing them through Islamic instruments. _x000D_ _x000D_ The objectives are: (1) To examine the functional and/or operational activities or processes undertaken during the production and marketing of an agricultural commodity and/or livestock enterprise, (2) To examine contemporary relevant Islamic modes used by Islamic banks to finance the production-marketing process and to asses the significance of these modes with respect to dates of maturity and other salient features, and (3) To examine the possibility of financing these operations through Islamic instruments._x000D_ _x000D_ Subsequent sections explain the methodology adopted, the production marketing process, methods used to finance operational activities in the crop enterprise, and the possibility of mobilizing as