Sichuan Agricultural University Reports Findings in Agricultural Insurance (Assessing the relationship between air pollution, agricultural insurance, and agricultural green total factor productivity: evidence from China): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2022 JUN 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- New research on Agriculture - Agricultural Insurance is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “As a favorite means to promote the development of green agriculture, agricultural insurance can not only encourage farmers to adopt green production technology and improve production efficiency, but also achieve the purpose of reducing the input of chemicals to protect the environment. This article aims to study the dynamic relationship between agricultural insurance, air pollution, and agricultural green total factor productivity using the panel vector auto-regressive method (PVAR) and panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2005 to 2018.”

Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Sichuan Agricultural University, “The empirical results show that there is a significant cross-sectional dependence and the co-integration relationship between agricultural insurance, air pollution, and agricultural green total factor productivity. The increase in agricultural insurance can improve agricultural green total factor productivity and aggravate air pollution to a certain extent. However, serious air pollution does not improve agricultural green total factor productivity. Panel Granger causality test results show that agricultural insurance has a one-way causal relationship with green total factor productivity and air pollution, and so does air pollution with agricultural green total factor productivity. In addition, impulse response results show that increasing agricultural insurance or reducing air pollution can improve agricultural green total factor productivity.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “These conclusions have long-term practical implications for both agricultural policymakers and environmental managers.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Assessing the relationship between air pollution, agricultural insurance, and agricultural green total factor productivity: evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022. Environmental Science and Pollution Research can be contacted at: Springer Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany. (Springer - www.springer.com; Environmental Science and Pollution Research - http://www.springerlink.com/content/0944-1344/)

The news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Mengqian Tang, College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Houjian Li, Andi Cao and Lili Guo.

Publisher contact information for the journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research is: Springer Heidelberg, Tiergartenstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany.

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