Researchers from University of Jinan Describe Findings in Crop Insurance (Does Crop Insurance Reduce Pesticide Usage? Evidence From China): Agriculture – Crop Insurance

2021 OCT 29 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Agriculture - Crop Insurance. According to news reporting out of Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “We test how crop insurance participation affects the intensity of pesticide use in China using data on staple crop production from eight provinces.”

Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Jinan, “Our preferred specification instruments farmers’ decisions of participation in insurance by village-level intensities of promotional activities and controls for province fixed effects. We find crop insurance participation significantly reduces pesticide use intensity.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The reduction effect is greater for smaller plots, older farmers, and farmers who are more risk averse.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Does Crop Insurance Reduce Pesticide Usage? Evidence From China. China Economic Review, 2021;69. China Economic Review can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY 10169, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; China Economic Review - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/china-economic-review/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yujie Han, University of Jinan, Inst Econ & Social Res, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Shuaizhang Feng and Huanguang Qiu.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101679. 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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