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Transformative crop insurance solution with big earth data: Implementation for potato in India

Climate Risk Management
Context: Crop insurance has become an indispensable risk management tool in the agricultural sector because globally crops are being exposed to multiple hazards.
C.S. Murthy, Karun Kumar Choudhary, Varun Pandey, P. Srikanth, Siddesh Ramasubramanian, G. Senthil Kumar, Malay Kumar Poddar, Cristina Milesi, Ramakrishna Nemani   +8 more
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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
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A MODEL FOR DETERMINING PREMIUM RATES IN INDEXBASED CROP INSURANCE

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979)
The paper deals with index-based crop insurance as a tool for managing flood and drought risks in agriculture. We introduce a novel model for determining premium rates in index-based crop insurance which combines the loss cost method and the average ...
Marija Koprivica, Jelena Kočović, Drago Cvijanović   +2 more
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Paddy crop insurance using satellite-based composite index of crop performance

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2022
The well-known area-yield crop insurance contract, guaranteeing a certain percent of normal yield over an insured area, is losing its effectiveness due to poor quality yield data.
C. S. Murthy, Malay Kumar Poddar, Karun Kumar Choudhary, Varun Pandey, P. Srikanth, Siddesh Ramasubramanian, G. Senthil Kumar   +6 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CROP INSURANCE IN EU AND SERBIA

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2011
The aim of the author of this paper is to familiarize readers with crop insurance in the EU and Serbia. A comparative method of research has been used and the paper presents types of crop insurance policies typical of the European continent.
Jasmina Labudović-Stanković, Nada Todorović   +1 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crop insurance, factor allocation, and farmers’ income: evidence from Chinese pear farmers

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Crop insurance, as a crucial tool for agricultural risk management, holds significant importance in increasing farmers’ income. This study analyzed the intrinsic relationship and mechanism between crop insurance, factor allocation, and pear farmers ...
Jianping Cha, Yashan Deng, Shaofeng Zheng, Feifei Li   +3 more
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Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source