Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan
Hybrid maize farmers have to face diverse kinds of climate, biological, price and financial risks. Farmers' risk perceptions and risk attitudes are essential elements influencing farm operations and management decisions. However, this important issue has been overlooked in the contemporary stud...
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| author | Shoaib Akhtar Gu-cheng LI Raza Ullah Adnan Nazir Muhammad Amjed Iqbal Muhammad Haseeb Raza Nadeem Iqbal Muhammad Faisal |
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| description | Hybrid maize farmers have to face diverse kinds of climate, biological, price and financial risks. Farmers' risk perceptions and risk attitudes are essential elements influencing farm operations and management decisions. However, this important issue has been overlooked in the contemporary studies and therefore there is a dearth of literature on this important issue. The present research is therefore, an attempt to fill this gap. This study aims to quantify hybrid maize farmers' perceptions of disastrous risks, their attitudes towards risk and to explore the impacts of various farm and farm household factors on farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The present study is conducted in four hybrid maize growing districts of Punjab Province, Pakistan, using cross-sectional data of 400 hybrid maize farmers. Risk matrix and equally likely certainty equivalent (ELCE) method are used to rank farmers' perceptions of four catastrophic risk sources including climate, biological, price and financial risks and to investigate farmers' risk aversion attitudes, respectively. Furthermore, probit regression is used to analyze the determinants affecting farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The results of the study showed that majority of farmers are risk averse in nature and perceive price, biological and climate to be potential sources of risks to their farm enterprise. In addition, analysis divulges that distance from farm to main market, off-farm income, location dummies for Sahiwal and Okara, age, maize farming experience, access to extension agent, significantly (either negatively or positively) influence farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The study delivers valuable insights for farmers, agricultural insurance sector, extension services researchers and agricultural policy makers about the local understanding of risks to hybrid maize crop in developing countries, like Pakistan, and have implications for research on farmers' adaptation to exposed risks. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-edd07c94e9d4456eacf9b849f3c221112025-08-02T22:49:24ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Integrative Agriculture2095-31192018-06-0117614541462Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, PakistanShoaib Akhtar0Gu-cheng LI1Raza Ullah2Adnan Nazir3Muhammad Amjed Iqbal4Muhammad Haseeb Raza5Nadeem Iqbal6Muhammad Faisal7College of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.ChinaCollege of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.China; Correspondence LI Gu-cheng, Mobile: +86-18986231362Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanCollege of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.ChinaInstitute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad 38000, PakistanCollege of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.ChinaThe Management School, Lancaster University, LA1 4YX, United KingdomCollege of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P.R.ChinaHybrid maize farmers have to face diverse kinds of climate, biological, price and financial risks. Farmers' risk perceptions and risk attitudes are essential elements influencing farm operations and management decisions. However, this important issue has been overlooked in the contemporary studies and therefore there is a dearth of literature on this important issue. The present research is therefore, an attempt to fill this gap. This study aims to quantify hybrid maize farmers' perceptions of disastrous risks, their attitudes towards risk and to explore the impacts of various farm and farm household factors on farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The present study is conducted in four hybrid maize growing districts of Punjab Province, Pakistan, using cross-sectional data of 400 hybrid maize farmers. Risk matrix and equally likely certainty equivalent (ELCE) method are used to rank farmers' perceptions of four catastrophic risk sources including climate, biological, price and financial risks and to investigate farmers' risk aversion attitudes, respectively. Furthermore, probit regression is used to analyze the determinants affecting farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The results of the study showed that majority of farmers are risk averse in nature and perceive price, biological and climate to be potential sources of risks to their farm enterprise. In addition, analysis divulges that distance from farm to main market, off-farm income, location dummies for Sahiwal and Okara, age, maize farming experience, access to extension agent, significantly (either negatively or positively) influence farmers' risk attitudes and risk perceptions. The study delivers valuable insights for farmers, agricultural insurance sector, extension services researchers and agricultural policy makers about the local understanding of risks to hybrid maize crop in developing countries, like Pakistan, and have implications for research on farmers' adaptation to exposed risks.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095311917617969risk perceptionsrisk attitudehybrid maizedeterminantsPunjabPakistan |
| spellingShingle | Shoaib Akhtar Gu-cheng LI Raza Ullah Adnan Nazir Muhammad Amjed Iqbal Muhammad Haseeb Raza Nadeem Iqbal Muhammad Faisal Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan Journal of Integrative Agriculture risk perceptions risk attitude hybrid maize determinants Punjab Pakistan |
| title | Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| title_full | Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| title_fullStr | Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| title_short | Factors influencing hybrid maize farmers' risk attitudes and their perceptions in Punjab Province, Pakistan |
| title_sort | factors influencing hybrid maize farmers risk attitudes and their perceptions in punjab province pakistan |
| topic | risk perceptions risk attitude hybrid maize determinants Punjab Pakistan |
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