Socio-economic Factors Affecting Farmers` Risk AttitudesAn Econometric Approach
The main objective of this study was to investigate the farmers’ attitude toward risk by using an econometric model. Farmers' data for the current study were drawn out from 125 farmers of Beiza, in Fars province, who were selected by a stratified random sampling method. The variance-covariance analysis which was used in this study indicated that farmers react to changes in the variance and an average of nearly all crops. So, it was revealed risk aversion inthe farmers. The results also indicated that, socio-economics factors, agricultural crop insurance, extension services, level of education, and non-farming jobs have negative influence on risk aversion. The results shows that agricultural crop insurance has positive effect on decreasing farmers' degree of risk aversion, and thereby, enhancing their investment as well as farmers' income levels.
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