The Impact of Agricultural Products Insurance on Using Technical-Healthy Regulations of Production: A Case Study of Industrial Livestock and Apple Farms

Subject Areas : Journal of Crop Ecophysiology

A.  Falsafian ¹ (Staff Member, Faculty of Agriculture, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)
S.K.  Vaezi ² (Assistant Prof., Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Iran)

Received: 2016-01-08 Accepted : 2016-01-08 Published : 2010-08-23

Keywords: agricultural insurance, Apple farm, Industrial livestock, Technical-healthy regulations of production,

Abstract :

Agricultural insurance is considered as a support policy that reduces negative effects of risk in agricultural farms. In addition, it can improve managerial behavior of insured and technical-healthy regulations of production by using some special tools. This study investigated the impact ofinsurance of agricultural products insurance on using technical-healthy regulations of production in industrial livestock farms at Khorasan province and apple farms at Damavand County. To this end, the required data were survyed from the farms; then it was statistically analyzed. Results indicated that the insurance has exactly significant influence on using any of technical-healthy regulations of production in industrial livestock farms; whereas the insurance does not have any significant influence in the apple farms. In addition, it was also found out that the greatest influence of insurance was in industrial livestock and apple farms that had less than 200 animals and 3 hectares farms, respectively.