The role of crop insurance in reducing pesticide use: Evidence from rice farmers in China

Rice commodity is one of the main commodities being cultivated by farmers in Kadugenep Village. .various kinds of agricultural activities carried out by rice farmers in Kadugenep Village, in carrying out agricultural activities not only on production activities or cultivation of plants, but how to market agricultural productsin order to generate profits that can prosper farmers in terms of the economy.the assessment activities have been carried out from March 1 to June 30, 2020, with a total sample of 32 people. Data mining is done by interviews, questionnaires that have been tested for validity and reliability, as well as direct observation. .farmer empowerment levels were analyzed descriptively, factors related to empowerment were analyzed using the Spearmean Rank Correlation, and counseling strategies were analyzed using Kendal's Wbased on the results obtained from interviews and questionnaires given to respondents, showed that 5 people (15.6%) of respondents stated helpless, while 27 people (84.4%) respondents stated helpless. factors related to the role of the government (X2.1) of 0,000 and the role of advisors (X2.2) of 0.001 have a significant relationship to the empowerment of rice farmers in marketing rice packaging. strategies that can be done in increasing the empowerment of rice farmers in marketing rice from the results of the Kendall W analysis, namely by providing counseling about the function of cooperatives as a place for marketing products and functionspackaging with lecture, discussion and demonstration methods as well as extension media used, namely the provision of videos and folders.

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Time versus State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya

The American Economic Review ◽

10.1257/aer.20171526 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 108 (12) ◽

pp. 3778-3813 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Lorenzo Casaburi ◽

Jack Willis

Keyword(s):

Crop Insurance ◽

Counterparty Risk ◽

Harvest Time ◽

Contract Farming ◽

Present Bias ◽

The Poor ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Randomized Control ◽

The Difference

The gains from insurance arise from the transfer of income across states. Yet, by requiring that the premium be paid up front, standard insurance products also transfer income across time. We show that this intertemporal transfer can help explain low insurance demand, especially among the poor, and in a randomized control trial in Kenya we test a crop insurance product which removes it. The product is interlinked with a contract farming scheme: as with other inputs, the buyer of the crop offers the insurance and deducts the premium from farmer revenues at harvest time. The take-up rate for pay-at-harvest insurance is 72 percent, compared to 5 percent for the standard pay-up-front contract, and the difference is largest among poorer farmers. Additional experiments and outcomes provide evidence on the role of liquidity constraints, present bias, and counterparty risk, and find that enabling farmers to commit to pay the premium just 1 month later increases demand by 21 percentage points. (JEL G22, I32, O13, O16, Q12, Q14)

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Effects of Haze Pollution on Pesticide use by Rice Farmers: Fresh Evidence from Rural Area of China

10.21203/rs.3.rs-467702/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lili Guo ◽

Andi Cao ◽

Minjun Huang ◽

Houjian Li

Keyword(s):

Rural Area ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Pesticide Use ◽

Reverse Causality ◽

Pesticide Application ◽

Rice Farmers ◽

Haze Pollution ◽

Chemical Pesticide ◽

Chemical Pesticides

Abstract Recently, serious haze pollution has not only threatened the human health and food security, but also seems to have aggravated the unscientific use of pesticides by rice farmers in rural area of China. Using original data on haze pollution across China, combined with rural household survey data collected from 2014 to 2018, we conducted a detailed empirical study on the effects of haze pollution on pesticide use by rice farmers based on the theory of risk aversion. The empirical results revealed that haze pollution with higher levels of PM2.5 positively impacted the use of chemical pesticides in the rice cultivation. More precisely, with 1% increases in PM2.5 concentration, the amount of pesticide application per mu increased by 7.9%, and the average pesticide fee per mu increased by 2.3%, respectively. The results were robust to a series of tests that addressed potential endogeneity concerns, including omitted variable bias, measurement error and reverse causality. We then examined the heterogeneous effects of haze pollution increase on the use of chemical pesticides and found that the effects of haze pollution on the use of chemical pesticides to be weaker for rice farmer with more rice-planting experience, those with smaller cultivated area of rice, however, the effects on the amount of chemical pesticide application per mu to be weaker for those with rice insurance, but the effects on the average chemical pesticide fee per mu to be stronger for those with rice insurance. Our findings provide important policy implications for pesticide risk management in rural areas of developing countries.

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ANALYSIS OF THE FUCTIONAL ROLE OF RICE MILLING COMPANY ON THE WELFARE OF RICE FARMERS IN THE SUB-DISTRICT BUAY MADANG TIMUR DISTRICT OKU TIMUR

Jurnal AKTUAL ◽

10.47232/aktual.v16i1.6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 47

Author(s):

Aisah Aisah

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Small Scale ◽

Functional Roles ◽

Medium Scale ◽

Rice Farmers ◽

Result Show ◽

Rice Milling ◽

Processing And Storage

Rice Milling Company is rice industry’s oldest and largest classified in Indonesia, which is able to absorb more than 10 million workers, handles more than 40 million tons of grain. Rice Milling Company agro-industy is the central point, because this is where the main product is obtained in the form of rice and raw materials for advanced processing of food and industrial products. Rice Miling Unit in the district of OKU Timur there is some skala, ranging form small-scale, medium-scale to large-scale. Fuctional benefits of each different scale milling is also different. The average rice farmers often sell gabahnya to the rice milling unit closest to the place residence, whether it is large-scale, medium and small. Rice produced by the milling-grinding different quality. Usually when a large-scale millimg yield of rice is cleaner than the other scale. But it does not become a reference for milling grain milling usually depends on consumer demand. The purpose of the study are : 1. To determine levels of volume (tonnage) and the retention time of each service fuctional rice storage (barns) wich carried a different scale rice milling unit. 2. To determine differences in the bebefits of economic transactions received by farmers and rice millers of different scale of business, especially when seen from the level of the milling costs, the purchase price of rice by rice milling unit, and the quality of milling services and service scale. The result show that : the fuctional role of each is different milling. Large-scale milling has three fuctional roles are : Processing, storage and distribution. Medium-scale miling functional has two roles, namely : processing and distribution. While small-scale rice milling unit has only two functional roles are : processing and storage.

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Relationships The Role of Farm Group with Rice Farmer Social Status in Cialam Jaya Village Konda Sub District South Konawe District

Buletin Penelitian Sosial Ekonomi Pertanian Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Haluoleo ◽

10.37149/bpsosek.v22i2.14240 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 90

Author(s):

Hartina Batoa ◽

Salahuddin Salahuddin ◽

Awaluddin Hamzah ◽

Rahayu Endah Purwanti ◽

Andi Dheviani Oksaputri Iskandar

Keyword(s):

Social Status ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Rank Correlation ◽

Simple Random Sampling ◽

Research Area ◽

Lowland Rice ◽

Rice Farmers ◽

Farmer Groups ◽

Rice Farmer

This study aims to determine the relationship between the role of farmer groups and the social status of lowland rice farmers in Cialam Jaya Village, Konda Sub District, South Konawe District. This research was conducted in Cialam Jaya Village in September-December 2019. The determination of the research area was carried out purposively with the consideration that Cialam Jaya Village is one of the centres for lowland rice production and has farmer groups. Simple random sampling (simple random sampling) takes 10% or as many as 26 respondents of rice farmers. The data analysis used was the Spearman Rank Correlation analysis. The results showed that the role of the group was significantly related to the socioeconomic status of lowland rice farmers, with a significance value of 0.019.

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Role of Socio-Economic Variables on Adoption of Crop Insurance Schemes

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3052120 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mrinali Kumari ◽

Krishna M. Singh ◽

Rewati Raman Mishra ◽

D. K. Sinha ◽

Nasim Ahmad

Keyword(s):

Crop Insurance ◽

Economic Variables ◽

Socio Economic Variables

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The Role of Information in Agricultural Technology Adoption: Experimental Evidence from Rice Farmers in Uganda

Economic Development and Cultural Change ◽

10.1086/703868 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Bjorn Van Campenhout

Keyword(s):

Technology Adoption ◽

Experimental Evidence ◽

Agricultural Technology ◽

Rice Farmers ◽

Role Of Information

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The influence of crop insurance agents on coverage choices: The role of agent competition

Agricultural Economics ◽

10.1111/agec.12576 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 623-638

Author(s):

Nathan D. DeLay ◽

Hayley H. Chouinard ◽

Cory G. Walters ◽

Philip R. Wandschneider

Keyword(s):

Crop Insurance ◽

Insurance Agents

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How does crop insurance influence pesticide use? Evidence from French farms

Review of Agricultural Food and Environmental Studies ◽

10.1007/s41130-020-00129-5 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Geoffroy Enjolras ◽

Magali Aubert

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Strategic Change ◽

Crop Insurance ◽

Pesticide Use ◽

Management Tools ◽

Private Companies ◽

Field Crops ◽

Farm Accountancy Data Network ◽

Farm Scale ◽

Using Data

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to examine how crop insurance influences pesticide use, the two decisions being strategic for risk management at the farm scale. To that aim, the paper implements propensity score matching, difference-in-differences models, and a combination of these two methods in order to compare two similar populations of insured and non-insured farmers. Using data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), we consider French farms which cultivate field crops and quality wine-growing, the two main productions that participate the most to crop insurance and that use intensively pesticides. The analysis is performed between 2008 and 2012 given a strategic change in the crop insurance system in 2010 that strongly incites farmers to purchase crop insurance with private companies. At the same time, pesticide use was progressively discouraged through public policies. Estimations show that while pesticide use decreases for all crops, the purchase of crop insurance policies has no impact for field crops and quality wine-growing. Meanwhile, the land allocated to each crop within the farm changes. These results question a possible substitutability, for some productions, between crop insurance and pesticides as risk management tools.

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