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Agriculture is proposing a new agricultural insurance
20/07/2009
July 20, 2009
The Ministry of Rural Environment, through the State entity of agricultural insurance (Enesa), has made an initial proposal for the elaboration of a plan to define the characteristics of the safe agricultural for the three years 2010-2012. With this plan, now to debate with insurance companies and the farmer organizations and cooperatives, the Executive aims to incorporate two new features. According to the El País rail, the first is the development of insurance of exploitation, which would be possible to ensure all productions with a minimum yield to prices set annually by the administration.
The second novelty is to lay the groundwork to apply in the following years insurance income where the sector to ensure their farms, not only to the weather risks or disease, but also against fluctuations of prices in markets. To implement this coverage will take as a reference, in calculating income, acquired in the previous five years in secure exploitation.
Agricultural insurance is currently one of the axes in the policy of support for the activity of farmers and ranchers. If a policy questioned by the European Union, so it could result in illegal subsidies, happened to be a measure backed by Brussels.
