Iranian Journal Pulses Research

Iranian Journal Pulses Research

Role of Rain-fed Lentil risk profile in designing of insurance model in North Khorassan province

Document Type : Original Articles

Authors
Mohamad Ghorbani
Fatemeh Jafari
Department of Agricultural Economy, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
10.22067/ijpr.v1i1.6358
Abstract
In this paper data were collected from 120 farmers in North Khorassan province for the two
periods (2005-2007) in order to survey the role of rain-fed lentil risk profile for designing an insurance
model. To evaluate looses of each risk, risk frequency, risk impact criteria’s as well as risk matrix
were used. Results showed that low risk was the largest risk area. During study period, a decrease in
risks diversity was not observed, and only the inputs price risk increased. Average rates of
information, labor, production, price and credit risks were 30, 5.0, 4.5, 3.75 and 3.33%, respectively.
Correlation between risk score and rain-fed lentil yield was positive (0.38). According to the results,
developing a risk profile and use of risk profile in designing a revenue insurance model and coverage
of risks and low-priced credit payments are suggested.
Key words: Pulse, Revenue insurance, Risk, Risk matrix, Scoring
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  • Receive Date 05 January 2011
  • First Publish Date 05 January 2011