Research on Agricultural Insurance Detailed by Researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University (Dynamic Relationship between Agricultural Technology Progress, Agricultural Insurance and Farmers’ Income): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2022 OCT 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on agricultural insurance have been presented. According to news reporting out of Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The implementation of the agricultural insurance policy and advancement of agricultural technology has great significance for the development of the agricultural economy of China, and it is an important source of national stability and modernization and development of the agriculture sector. Agricultural insurance policy uses the expansion of agricultural technology progress in the process of evaluation, investigation and claims settlement, and so on.”

Financial supporters for this research include China Scholarship Council; The National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project of China.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Huazhong Agricultural University: “Agricultural technology progress is effective in the reduction of some agricultural risks, it also affects farmers’ agricultural insurance behaviors, and optimizes the operating environment of agricultural insurance. The objective of this research is to explore the relationship between agricultural technology progress, agricultural insurance and farmers’ income. It also explains the mutual/cooperative relationship between agricultural technology progress and agricultural insurance. It provides the theoretical basis and data support to verify the promotion effect of agricultural insurance and agricultural technology progress on farmers’ income. This gives the improvement path for alleviating the spatial imbalance of China’s agricultural development. Keeping in view the aforementioned background and this research explores the effects of agricultural technological progress and agricultural insurance on the farmers’ income level. The panel data used for this research were from 2004 to 2019 and were grouped into two parts: high-density agricultural insurance areas and low-density agricultural insurance areas. The relationship between agricultural technology progress, agricultural insurance and farmers’ income was estimated using the Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The results revealed that: (i) both agricultural technology progress and agricultural insurance have a positive effect on the farmers’ income level, but this effect varies across regions; (ii) impact of the agricultural insurance on farmers’ income is greater than the impact of agricultural technology progress on farmers’ income; and (iii) the role of agricultural insurance in promoting agricultural technology progress exists only in areas with high-density agricultural insurance. Therefore, when formulating policies, the policymakers should consider regional differences and characteristics, and adopt development models keeping in view regional variations in adaptability with different agricultural insurance densities, Moreover, they should improve agricultural security policies, optimize agricultural capital allocation, promote the transformation of the agricultural economy from extensional growth to connotative growth, and further improve the agricultural productive income of rural residents.”

For more information on this research see: Dynamic Relationship between Agricultural Technology Progress, Agricultural Insurance and Farmers’ Income. Agriculture, 2022,12(1331):1331. (Agriculture - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture). The publisher for Agriculture is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12091331.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Caifeng Tan, College of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Jianping Tao, Lan Yi, Juan He, Qi Huang.

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