Abstract
Punishment policies on the inappropriate treatment of dead hogs play a key role in safeguarding public health and environmental protection. These policies aim to regulate the behavior of farmers and promote the development of sustainable agriculture. Farmers’ evaluation of a policy can be used to measure its effectiveness, and loss aversion is a factor that has been little studied. This study surveyed 404 hog farmers in China, and analyzed the factors that influenced their evaluation of the penalties for the inappropriate treatment of dead hogs during 2016 and 2017. We used three indicators for the evaluation of the penalties: the degree of necessity, implementation, and effectiveness. Special attention was paid to farmers’ aversion to financial penalties and police detention time, which was elicited using economic experiments. The results show that farmers are more likely to be averse to police detention time than financial penalties, and suggest that the level of each indicator needs to be increased. The results from an ordered Probit model show that there are both similarities and differences between the formation paths of the three indicators. An aversion to financial penalties will help to improve the degree of implementation. An aversion to police detention time will lead to a negative trend in the degree of effectiveness. An in-depth analysis of the factors that influence farmers’ evaluation of policies to punish inappropriate treatment of dead hogs may provide a basis for the design of government policies to improve environmental protection performance.
Highlights
Inappropriate treatment of dead hogs pollutes the environment and threatens human health
This paper investigated the factors that influence farmers’ evaluation of a punishment policy for the inappropriate treatment of dead hogs
This paper investigated the loss aversion of hog production farmers using an experimental economics method, and examined the determinants of loss aversion using an ordered
Summary
Inappropriate treatment of dead hogs pollutes the environment and threatens human health. To ensure that hog products are safe and of high quality, China’s government has been attempting to reduce the inappropriate treatment of dead hogs. The government has promulgated a series of policies and regulations on hog production, including the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law in 2007, the Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in Handling Criminal. These policies prohibit farmers from inappropriately handling dead hogs. Prevention state that persons who dispose of dead animals (including dead hogs) for an unknown cause will be punished. The relevant agencies shall order the offender to conduct harmless treatment of animals, require the offender to bear the handling costs, and impose a fine on the offender of not more than 3000 yuan. If the circumstances are serious, they shall be addressed based on the specific situation
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