Impact of Agricultural Insurance on the Technical Efficiency ofTomato Growers in Bushehr Province

The Bushehr Province with an annual production of 45343 tons of total country`s productionis in third place in ranked. The aim of this study was to evaluate the functionally and technicalefficiency of agricultural insurance for growers in the province. Technical efficiency is one ofthe measures to evaluate the operating performance of agriculture. This cross-sectional studywas conducted as a survey. The target population includes all tomato growers Bushehr provinceby using cluster sampling from three counties of Dayyer, Dashti and Jam were collected in theprovince. The utilization of Patton table to determine the sample size of 8,000 tomato growersof Province, 367 people were in three counties of Dayyer, Dashti and Jam with 70, 57 and 65tomatoes growers uninsured and the number 65, 50 and 60 tomatoes growers insured ,the col￾lected information on the total sample were determined. The results showed that the averagetechnical efficiency of tomato farmers insurance group in counties of Jam, Dayyer, Dashti usingordinary least squares corrected, respectively, 61.8, 44.2 and 41.4 percent and for group not in￾sured respectively 60.5, 33.8 and 34.6 percent. The test results were compared and the averagetechnical efficiency of insured tomato growers in any county, showed that agricultural insurancein counties of Dashti and Dayyer had a positive and significant effect on the technical efficiencyof growers, while uninsured growers has no significant technical efficiency on growers of Jamcounty.