Satisfaction Survey Of Pig Insurance Farmers In Hebei Province

In 2018,China produced 54.15 million tons of pork,accounting for 48 percent of the world’s total,and maintaining its dominant position in global pork production.The outbreak of African swine fever since August 2018 has caused heavy losses to the nation’s pig breeding industry,with the country’s pork production in 2019 down 21.3 percent from 2018 to 42.55 million tons.The pig breeding industry was hit by the epidemic,and the pig farmers suffered heavy economic losses,which seriously weakened their enthusiasm to continue pig breeding.In response to the outbreak of swine fever,the government adopted a policy of subsidy for culling sick pigs to help farmers reduce losses and encourage them to continue operations.The No.1 Central Document in 2019 states that efforts should be made to monitor and control animal outbreaks such as African swine fever,strictly implement prevention and control measures and ensure industrial safety.The No.1 Central Document in 2020 further states that the country will speed up the resumption of pig production as a key supply guarantee measure to ensure the return to near normal level by the end of the year.Government subsidies have played an important role in raising farmers’ enthusiasm for pig breeding and stabilizing pork prices,but over-reliance on them is likely to increase the financial burden of the government and cannot fully solve the problem of farmers’ risk transfer and loss compensation.Therefore,pig insurance,a market-oriented risk diversification and loss compensation tool,should be used to deal with pig breeding risks.This paper takes the pig breeding industry in Hebei Province as the research object and the pig farmers’ satisfaction with the pig insurance as the research object,and selects several pig breeding counties such as Xinji,Jinzhou,Shenze,Guangyang and Lulong to conduct field investigation and research.Firstly,the paper analyzes the general situation of pig breeding industry and the risks faced by pig breeding industry in Hebei Province,points out that pig breeding industry is in urgent need of pig insurance to provide risk guarantee,and summarizes the development status of pig insurance in Hebei Province.Secondly,the paper adopts questionnaire survey and statistical analysis to investigate pig insurance satisfaction of farmers and make descriptive statistical analysis.Then,by visiting the finance department andthe insurance institution,the reasons for the low degree of satisfaction of pig insurance from the perspective of supply and demand were analyzed.Finally,some suggestions are put forward to improve the pig insurance satisfaction of farmers in Hebei Province,such as innovating the development model of pig insurance,improving the scientific and technological level of pig insurance service,and improving the insurance participation rate of farmers.The innovation of this paper lies in the relatively new research perspective.At present,there are few literatures on the investigation of hogs insurance in Hebei Province.Therefore,the research on the development status of hogs insurance and the insurance satisfaction of pig farmers in Hebei Province against the background of African swine fever is also of strong feasibility and urgency,which may have some reference value for insurance companies and relevant government departments.The shortcomings of the paper are that the sample size of the survey is not large enough,and the survey subjects are mostly retail investors,so the statistical analysis of some indicators may not be objective enough.