The Impact of Policy-Oriented Crop Insurance on Technical Efficiency —A Case for Rice Farmers in China
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the impact of policy-oriented crop insurance on crop yield among rice farmers in China. The population used in this paper consisted of rice farmers. We used stratified multi-stage cluster sampling approach to collect data and face to face interviewed with 502 farmers in three different climate regions: cold, temperate and tropical during 2010-2011 crop years. The corrected ordinary least square was used to determine farmers technical efficiency. The paper adds to findings that policy-oriented crop insurance has positive effect on temperate and tropical regions. However, there was non-significant yield difference between insured and uninsured farmers in cold region. As a conclusion, technical efficiency of crop production is a function of policy-oriented crop insurance as well as other variables such as yield risk management practices, personal characteristics and fair distribution of crop inputs.
Policy-oriented crop insurance Technical efficiency yield risk Chinese farmer
YU Yang WANG Erda
Department of Finance and Banking, Liaoning University of International Business andEconomics, Dalia School of Business Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 116024
国际会议
大连
英文
608-611
2012-07-07（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）