Agro-meteorological index insurance is an innovative agricultural insurance product that has solved problems of conventional agricultural insurances including excessive cost and moral hazard. Agro-meteorological index insurance has become an effective agricultural insurance scheme. This paper primarily uses meteorological data and winter wheat yield data in the Jiangsu Province for the last 35 ...

the chemical inputs threat the health of water, soil and organisms. thus, it is essential to encourage farmers to produce products with minimum use of chemical inputs. using the ordered logit model and a cross sectional data of 186 producers in 2012, this study attempted at investigating influential factors on willingness to accept (wta) of khorasan razavi province farmers to produce greenhouse...

Fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts represent a large, highly important, and growing industry. Nonetheless, little is known about their in vivo characterization and morphology, the effect of mechanical harvesting, peelability, postharvest mold, physiological decay, and internal quality. Currently, destructive techniques can be employed to evaluate samples for internal product attributes. However,...

Based on a survey of 897 farming households in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, our results show that while farming households had high demands for capital, 47.7% have experienced having their application for a Rural Credit Cooperative (RCC) loan denied because of their low income. Agricultural production and income are significantly influenced by weather risks, and agricultural income accounts for...

abstract one of the major risks in the agricultural sector is the price fluctuations risk of agricultural products. futures markets for agricultural products as one of the policies and executive approach have a significant impact on reducing price fluctuations of agricultural products. so in this study, in this study the factors affecting farmers likely to participate in the future market for p...

Prepared by Extrusion Cooking Technology Wen Xia ,Ji-hua Li , Fei Wang , Xiao-yi Wei, Tiao-kun Fu and Zhen-wen Zhang Agricultural Product Processing Research Institute at Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang 524001, China. Tropical Crops Genetic Resources Institute Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences Hainan Province, China [email protected], [email protected]...