Willingness to Report and Willingness to Accept Compensation of Avian Influenza: Based on the Examples of Hai'an, Guannan of Jiangsu Province [Chinese language]

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2010-11

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The progress of livestock industry has been an important aspect of the agricultural development for a long time. However, with the development of stockbreeding and increase of import and export of livestock products, the epidemic disease of livestock products has been spreading abroad, which results in enormous economic impact on livestock industry and also threatens the public health safety. For instance, highly pathogenic avian influenza is a badly dangerous epidemic disease of animals infecting both human beings and animals. In addition, with regard to the report written by the Ministry of Public Health of our country to World Health Organization, since the year of 2009, the cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in China have been on the rise, and avian influenza has still threatened us on the way. In order to avoid the avian influenza, the Chinese government has executed 100% free immunization of poultry. In the meantime, according to Temporarily Administer method Prevention and Cure Funds of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, once highly pathogenic avian influenza breaks out, in order to avoid spreading of avian influenza virus it will block the epidemic place within 3km of it and kill all of the poultry in the exclusion zone. Its relief standard is regulated as the following: the farmers will be compensated 10 Yuan per poultry such as chicken, duck, and goose. Of course, the authority can adjust the relief standard differing in different kinds of poultry, or between poult and teleoptile according to the actual conditions of different regions. However, it is generally assumed that the average level of compensation is too low to make the raisers’ losses, especially for household of scale. The raisers as rational persons are possible to conceal the actual situation or sell their diseased animals by various kinds of approaches to cut down their losses before reporting the epidemic situation. After the raisers’ “rational alternative”, only the rest animals are left for the government to kill. Thus, on outbreak of the avian influenza, the report of raisers has greatly impact on the actual results of controlling this disease. It is necessary for us to study on the raisers’ willingness of report and compensation, which is beneficial to the control of avian influenza. Consequently, this thesis studies on the farmers’ willingness to report and WTA based on the statistics of investigation on Hai’an and Guannan of Jiangsu Province. In particular, it is divided into there parts: firstly, the author makes generally statistical analysis of raisers’ conscience of avian influenza, willingness to report and the rearing situation. Secondly, the author analyses the factors influencing the reporting willingness of larger scale farmers, backyard farmers and of non-poultry family by Logit Model. The study concludes that the report willingness of the above three households’ report is remarkably influenced by farmers’ knowledge of AI’ zoonosis, AI threats and individual risk perception. Trust in the government’s killing compensation policy pays a great effect on whether the farmers would like to report. Flock size is another important factor affecting scale farmers to report their own epidemic situation, but is of no consequence to the report of backyard farmers. Thirdly, the author gives a statistical interpretation on willingness of compensation of scale farmers, and applies Cox' Proportional Hazard Model to the influencing factors of their WTA. The study shows evidence that the rearing costs is the main factor affecting the WTA of scaled household. Through the above analysis, the main policy proposals are: 1) to advocate the larger scale rearing and gradually decrease the number of backyard poultry; 2) to strengthen publicity of the culling compensation policy of avian influenza; 3) to ensure adequate compensation and cut down the execution lag of compensation policy; 4) to establish reasonable compensation level; 5) to reinforce the technical supervision and guide the scale farmers to decrease the rearing costs.

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BACKYARD POULTRY, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, AVIAN INFLUENZA, INFLUENZA IN BIRDS, LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS, ZOONOTIC DISEASES, COMPENSATION, DISEASE REPORTING, WILLINGNESS TO REPORT, WTA, POULTRY RAISING

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