University of Guilan Animal Production Research 2252-0872 6 1 2017 06 22 The study of government’s supportive policies’ impact on silk cocoon production system at Guilan Province The study of government’s supportive policies’ impact on silk cocoon production system at Guilan Province 139 151 2236 10.22124/ar.2017.2236 FA M. K. Motamed Associate professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran M. Kavoosi-Kalashami Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan M. R. Rahi Expert in charge, Iran Sericulture Development Center, Guilan, Rasht, Iran Journal Article 2017 04 12 Agricultural policy includes a set of laws related to domestic agriculture and foreign policy for agricultural crops. Governments implement policies in order to achieve specific goals in the domestic markets of agricultural products. The experience of most developed countries and some developing countries indicated that governments initially focus supportive policies in the field on production to increase productivity and production efficiency and then gradually reduce these supports. In this research the effect of 6 supportive government policies on the production of silk cocoons over 2007-2016 were evaluated. In this regard, the panel data of the 16 city of Guilan province during this period of time and approach the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) were used. The data used in this study were taken from the Iran sericulture development center. The results showed that the policies of promotion and training courses and granting credit facilities were ineffective and had counterproductive effect. The policy of distributing silkworm cocoons egg had the most positive effects on the production of silk cocoon in the cities of Guilan province, so that an increase of one percent in distribution of silkworm cocoons egg boxes increased 1.22 percent in the production level of silk cocoon in Guilan province. <br />  Agricultural policy includes a set of laws related to domestic agriculture and foreign policy for agricultural crops. Governments implement policies in order to achieve specific goals in the domestic markets of agricultural products. The experience of most developed countries and some developing countries indicated that governments initially focus supportive policies in the field on production to increase productivity and production efficiency and then gradually reduce these supports. In this research the effect of 6 supportive government policies on the production of silk cocoons over 2007-2016 were evaluated. In this regard, the panel data of the 16 city of Guilan province during this period of time and approach the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) were used. The data used in this study were taken from the Iran sericulture development center. The results showed that the policies of promotion and training courses and granting credit facilities were ineffective and had counterproductive effect. The policy of distributing silkworm cocoons egg had the most positive effects on the production of silk cocoon in the cities of Guilan province, so that an increase of one percent in distribution of silkworm cocoons egg boxes increased 1.22 percent in the production level of silk cocoon in Guilan province. <br />  https://ar.guilan.ac.ir/article_2236_f705e29b3bccf2c792023dfb19492749.pdf