Factors Affecting the Credit Repayment Period of Small-scaled Beef Cattle Businesses in Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia

Abstract

The research is carried out in Donggala Regency, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. It employs survey method and aims at examining various factors which affect the credit repayment period of small-scaled beef cattle businesses at the District. 73 farmers receiving credits for beef cattle business are chosen purposively as the samples of the research. They are indeed members of a farmer group possessing and cultivating farmland for crops and plantations. The data analysis, which occupies multiple linear regression technique, show that mortality rate positively influence the period of the farmers’ repaying the credit of the small-scaled beef cattle businesses.

Keywords: beef, capital, partnership, revolving