Design of Temperature Insurance Index and Risk Zonation for Single-Season Rice in Response to High-Temperature and Low-Temperature Damage: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China

Ji Guo, Jiajia Jin, Yinshan Tang and Xianhua Wu
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Ji Guo: School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
Jiajia Jin: School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China
Yinshan Tang: Business Informatics Systems and Accounting, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UD, UK
Xianhua Wu: School of Economics and Management, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai 201306, China

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 7, 1-13

Abstract: Disaster insurance is an important tool for achieving sustainable development in modern agriculture. However, in China, the design of such insurance indexes is far from sufficient. In this paper, the single-season rice in Jiangsu Province of China is taken as an example to design the high-temperature damage index in summer and the low-temperature damage index in autumn to construct the formula calculating the weather output and single-season rice yield reduction. The daily highest, lowest and average temperatures between 1999 and 2015 are selected as main variables for the temperature disaster index to quantitatively analyze the relationship between the temperature index and the yield reduction rate of the single-season rice. The temperature disaster index can be put into the relevant model to obtain the yield reduction rate of the year and determine whether to pay the indemnity. Then, the burn analysis is used to determine the insurance premium rate for all cities in Jiangsu Province under four-level deductibles, and the insurance premium rate can be used for the risk division of the Province. The research provides some insights for the design of agricultural weather insurance products, and the empirical results provide a reference for the design of similar single-season rice temperature index insurance products.

Keywords: single-season rice; agricultural weather index-based insurance; premium rate determination; Jiangsu Province (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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