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Wheat risk diversification in North Khorasan
province: A risk profile analysis
Mohammad
Ghorbani* and Fatemeh Jafari
Department
of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College, Ferdowsi
University of
Mashhad,
Mashhad, Iran.
*Corresponding author. E-mail:
ghorbani@um.ac.ir.
Tel: 0098-511-8795617.
Fax: 0098-511-8787430.
Accepted
7 September, 2009 |
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In this
paper application of risk profile in wheat risk management
of North Khorasan province has studied. For achieving to
risk profile used data of 120 wheat producers for 2005 -
2007 period. Also, for evaluating of losses of each risk,
used two indexes of frequency and severity of risk effect
and finally risk matrix designed. Result showed that biggest
area for wheat was area with low risks. New variety of
product and lake of labors were decreased risks of wheat.
Wild animals, high cost of credit and use of unsuitable
harvest machines were increased risk resources. Regard to
results, annually monitoring of risks, control of pests
risks through biological control and crop diversification,
retraining of harvest machines users for putting machines in
order and suitable time of harvesting, considering of risk
profile for programming and designing of insurance plans
suggested.
Key
words:
Ranking,
loss, insurance, risk matrix. |
