School of Economics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 260071, China.
School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 16;18(14):7577. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18147577.
The agricultural insurance subsidy policy (AISP) encourages farmers to expand production scale by mitigating production risks. Under the high-input production patterns of traditional agriculture, the implementation of AISP is conducive to increase farmers' income, but it also leads to the destruction of the agricultural environment. Achieving agricultural green development (AGD) has been hindered in China. In this context, this paper attempts to analyze the impact of AISP on farmers' income and the agricultural environment. Based on the panel data of 316 prefecture-level cities from 2003 to 2012 in China, this paper empirically tests the effects of AISP by employing methods such as time-varying difference-in-difference (DID). The results show that AISP has significantly promoted the growth of farmers' incomes but has negatively impacted the agricultural environment. Furthermore, the mechanism analysis shows that the policy effects are realized by affecting the quantity of main productive fixed assets (Mpfa) and grain sown area per capita (Gsa). In addition, the policy effect is heterogeneous in different regions. Therefore, the government should appropriately raise the subsidy standard for farmers who adopt environmental-friendly production patterns. At the same time, the government should give more subsidies to the large grain-producing areas.
农业保险补贴政策（AISP）通过降低生产风险来鼓励农民扩大生产规模。在传统农业的高投入生产模式下，AISP 的实施有利于增加农民收入，但也导致了农业环境的破坏。中国的农业绿色发展（AGD）受到了阻碍。在这种情况下，本文试图分析 AISP 对农民收入和农业环境的影响。本文基于 2003 年至 2012 年中国 316 个地级市的面板数据，采用时变双重差分（DID）等方法，实证检验了 AISP 的影响。结果表明，AISP 显著促进了农民收入的增长，但对农业环境产生了负面影响。此外，机制分析表明，政策效果是通过影响主要生产性固定资产（Mpfa）和人均粮食播种面积（Gsa）的数量来实现的。此外，政策效果在不同地区存在异质性。因此，政府应适当提高采用环保生产模式的农民的补贴标准。同时，政府应向粮食主产区提供更多补贴。
