Study Data from Sichuan Agricultural University Update Understanding of Agricultural Insurance (The Non-linear Effect of Agricultural Insurance On Agricultural Green Competitiveness): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2022 AUG 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on Agriculture - Agricultural Insurance. According to news reporting originating in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Increasing agricultural productivity and reducing carbon emissions are two major challenges that China faces. This paper explores how agricultural insurance affects agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) that addresses these two challenges.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science Project, Shenzhen Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project, Wuhan Science and Technology Innovation Think Tank Construction Research Project.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Sichuan Agricultural University, “First, we adopt DDF-GML to measure AGTFP, and the Dagum’s Gini decompositions results show the large differences in AGTFP, with transvariation between subregions contributing the most. Second, we find the U-shaped effect of agricultural insurance on AGTFP in a large country context. The result remains robust after adjusting for time, sample and estimation method of AGTFP. We also construct instrumental variables from the minimum distance from the centroid of counties within a province to the 45 ports in China and two-stage lagged agricultural insurance penetration (AIP) for AIP, and their squares as instrumental variables for AIP(2). The conclusion remains robust in 2SLS model. Third, the findings confirm three channels for agricultural insurance to influence the AGTFP: environmentally friendly production, labor inputs and operation scale.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “We further propose policy advice to promote China’s agricultural modernization and point out further research directions in this field.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Non-linear Effect of Agricultural Insurance On Agricultural Green Competitiveness. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 2022. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management can be contacted at: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2-4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon OX14 4RN, Oxon, England.

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Minghui Liu, Sichuan Agricultural University, School of Marxism, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Fei Lu, Wuwei Wang, Mei Liu and Dingyi Qi.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2022.2098102. 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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