The Impact of Rice Insurance on Farmers’ Cultivation Practices: A Micro Case of Guangdong Province in China

Jing Tao, Jian Cai, Takao Yurugi and Takeshi Sakurai

Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), 2024, vol. 26

Abstract: This study investigates the impacts of government subsidized crop insurance on farmers’ rice cultivation practices using household survey data in Guangdong province, China. Although the insurance is compulsory, only some of the beneficiaries are aware of being insured by this insurance. Utilizing the diversity of insurance awareness, the effect of insurance is evaluated employing an endogenous treatment-effect model, which addresses the endogeneity of farmers’ awareness of being insured. The results show that farmers who are aware of being insured increased rice cultivation area by specializing in rice and probably adopting double cropping. As a result, total rice production increased significantly.

Keywords: Risk; and; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/348927/files/26_60.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:jpjjre:348927

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.348927

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics) from Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().