The greatest challenge to food security is low productivity emanating from slow growth in the
agricultural sector and one of the reasons for this is little or no access to financial resources
by producers. Credit is one of the empowerment tools that have the potential to boost the
productivity, increase food security and change the life of farmers from a situation of abject
poverty to a more dignified life in the long run. Using a household survey data from United
State Agency for International Development's feed the future initiative; this study employed …