New Agricultural Insurance Findings from Selcuk University Described (The Analysis of Factors Affecting Farmers to Take Out Agricultural Insurance: A Case Study of Altinekin District, Konya Province of Turkey): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

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2022 JAN 19 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report -- A new study on agricultural insurance is now available. According to news reporting from Konya, Turkey, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Agricultural insurance is one of the management risk tools. This research aimed to analyze the factors affecting food crop farmers’ agricultural insurance in the Altinekin District of Konya Province.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Selcuk University: “To obtain data using a questionnaire by interviewing 66 food crop farms entreprises who did agricultural insurance in the previous year. The population sampling was calculated with a single-stage non-clustered probability sampling. Factors affecting farmers’ agricultural insurance were analyzed by Binary Logistic Regression. The results of the analysis of factors affecting farmers’ willingness to take out agricultural insurance were farmers age, education, land size, sources from which they receive information on agricultural insurance, and the amount of support paid by the state, the amount of debt, pure product and agricultural income. The sources from which they received information on agricultural insurance had negative effect. The other factors have a positive effect.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Providing education and advertising about agricultural insurance to farmers can increase the willingness of farmers to take out agricultural insurance. Support in the form of assistance on agricultural insurance of the government is also needed.”

For more information on this research see: The Analysis of Factors Affecting Farmers to Take Out Agricultural Insurance: A Case Study of Altinekin District, Konya Province of Turkey. European Countryside, 2021,13(4):806-818. (European Countryside - http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/euco). The publisher for European Countryside is Sciendo.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0043.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Oguz Cennet, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey. Additional authors for this research include Diyanah Siti Mustaqimatud.