The National Union of Agricultural Insurers (NUAI) and the Association Greenhouses of Russia will together create a mechanism of greenhouse vegetable producers insurance with state support.
“NUAI initiated working out a supplemental program for the insurance of greenhouse production risks in 2018 and this suggestion was supported by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. In order to solve this particular task, we need to cooperate closely with the industry”, announced the President of NUAI, Mr. Korney Bizhdov.
According to the executive director of NUAI, Mr. Mukharbiy Borandukov, single cases of insurance were noted in Stavropol and Primorsky areas as well as the Republic of Bashkortostan. With that, since the law on agricultural insurance came into effect in 2012 and up to 2018 the share of vegetable insurance comprised only 3%.
“Such a situation can be explained by the fact that the specifics of the greenhouse production are not taken into account by the normative, legal and methodological base of agricultural insurance with state support. Productivity in a greenhouse is not calculated per ha, crop collection is controlled by the enterprise and accounted for on a daily basis and not per season. The biggest risks among the ones affecting the greenhouse growing are not the weather phenomena but
epiphytotics, disruptions in energy supplies and natural disasters causing the construction damage. With that the risks are realized but may be of catastrophic nature”, explained Mr. Borandukov.
Source: fruitnews.ru