Investigators at Akdeniz University Discuss Findings in Agricultural Insurance (Inclinations of Greenhouse Farmers In Turkey Toward Agricultural Insurance): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2021 DEC 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on Agriculture - Agricultural Insurance is now available. According to news originating from Antalya, Turkey, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study is explored the reasons why greenhouse farmers take out and do not take out agricultural insurance as well as the farmers’ inclinations toward agricultural insurance and the factors that affect them so that agricultural insurance can be improved. In this context, three districts of Antalya where greenhouse farming is intensively carried out, namely Aksu, Serik and Kumluca, were selected as the research location, and face-to-face interviews were conducted with 200 farmers, 100 of which had agricultural insurance and 100 of which did not.”

Financial support for this research came from Akdeniz University.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Akdeniz University, “The farms were divided into two groups, namely, those with and without insurance, according to the data obtained. The potential statistical relationship between some selected features of the farms under study and the farmers with and without insurance was identified by chi-square test. Furthermore, the inclinations, views and opinions of farmers with and without agricultural insurance concerning agricultural insurance were evaluated using a Likert scale. Among the reasons why farmers take out agricultural insurance are insuring their crop, avoiding any potential loss, securing their income and presence of disaster risk.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The main reasons why farmers do not take out agricultural insurance is the registration and share problems of their lands.”

For more information on this research see: Inclinations of Greenhouse Farmers In Turkey Toward Agricultural Insurance. Ciencia Rural, 2022;52(4). Ciencia Rural can be contacted at: Univ Federal Santa Maria, Cidade Univ, Bairro Camobi, Santa Maria, Rs 97105-900, Brazil.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Ilkay Kutlar, Akdeniz University, Faculty of Agriculture, Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Tr-07059 Antalya, Turkey.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-8478cr20200704. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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