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Factores explicativos de la contratacion de seguros por parte de los productores ecologicos de fruta y cereal en Espana

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  • Medina, Felipe
  • Garrido, Alberto
  • Iglesias, Ana

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Se analizan por medio de modelos econometricos, empleando datos de encuesta, los factores que explican la contratacion de seguros agrarios por parte de productores ecologicos. Los modelos logit y poisson revelan que aspectos y condicionantes como la percepcion que los agricultores dedicados a la produccion ecologica tienen de cada riesgo, el grado de diversificacion existente en la explotacion o la propia dimension economica de la misma, pueden explicar la utilidad que hoy en dia tiene para dichos productores una herramienta como el seguro agrario, utilizado por un gran numero de ellos con el objetivo de garantizar la proteccion de sus cosechas frente a posibles fenomenos climatologicos adversos. Se demuestra que las variables que condicionan la contratacion de yuna poliza de seguro agrario difieren mucho entre los cultuvos de cereal y fruta ecologica. En el caso de los productores de fruta ecologica, de las variables contempladas en este estudio, son los riesgos de pedrisco y plagas asi como el grado de diversificacion de la propia explotacion los que condicionan la decision de contratar. Sin embargo, en el caso de los productores de cereal ecologico es el tamano economico de la la explotacion el que condiciona fundamentalmente la suscripcion de una poliza de seguro. This paper analyzes the main factors that determinate the decision of contracting an agricultural insurance policy by organic farmers using data from a questionnaire and econometric models. Logit and Poisson models reveal the aspects and conditionings of organic farmer's risk perception. The diversification level of their farms and also the economic dimension of their farm can explain how useful the agricultural insurance is nowadays. This tool is used by a great number of farmers in Spain with the aim of protecting their crop against adverse climatic disasters. It is demonstrated in this paper that the variables that determine an agricultural insurance policy subscription is very different between fruit and cereal organic producers. In case of organic fruit producers, hail and plague aversion and diversification level are the variables that determinate the decision of subscribe an agricultural insurance policy. However, for the cereal organic farmers, the variable that fundamentally determine the subscription is the economic size of the main farm.

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  • Medina, Felipe & Garrido, Alberto & Iglesias, Ana, 2010. "Factores explicativos de la contratacion de seguros por parte de los productores ecologicos de fruta y cereal en Espana," Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Rural y Marino (formerly Ministry of Agriculture), issue 226, pages 1-24.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:spreea:186214
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.186214
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