Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Effective factors on ranges insurance acceptance by rangers of Semnan Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Hosein Raheli 1
Baballah Hahati 1
Ghader Dashti 1
Amin Shakeri 2
Jafar Seyyed Akhlaghi 3

1 Associate Professors, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

2 Graduate student of Agricultural Management, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran

3 Expert, Organization of Forest and Range, Semnan Province, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2013.36511
Abstract
Insurance industry is one of the effective factors of developing sustainable agriculture. Natural resources that are more pone to influence than other phenomenon such as: Drought, there are limited areas under insurance. From 86.4 million hectares of country Ranges, there are nearly 3 million hectares under insurance. Semnan province are compared to other areas has more Range insured. Therefore, in this research effective factors in accepting Range insurance by Semnanian's livestock have been investigated. This research is experimental and applied in the purpose also collected information and documents library. Desired statistical community is all Range man in the Semnan. Among this number of 147 persons using a random sampling as a statistical sample was selected for the 75 samples insurance range men receiver and 72 samples of range men were incompliant insurance. Logit model estimated results show that the class extension, the amount of range feed production, and to borrow the amount preserve and income are efficacious and the number of cattle is negative and significant in the acceptance of ranges insurance.


 

Keywords

acceptance
grass product
Logit Model
range insurance
range management plans
Semnan Province
Journal of Range and Watershed Managment
Volume 66, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
Autumn 2013
Pages 335-346

  • Receive Date 11 January 2011
  • Revise Date 02 March 2014
  • Accept Date 11 September 2012
  • Publish Date 23 October 2013

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