Agricultural insurance pilot plan

bao hiem NN The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a workshop in Ha Noi last Friday to discuss the feasibility of agricultural insurance and collect opinions from representatives of localities and insurance companies about a pilot programme on the insurance.

The pilot programme is set to be implemented in July.
"The fragmented and clustered character of agricultural production in Viet Nam is considered a major difficulty in implementing agricultural insurance," said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Xuan Hung.
Representatives from localities shared the idea that the criteria to select those eligible for insurance, proposed by the ministry, did not target the right people.
The pilot implementation of agricultural insurance was mainly aimed at poor or low-income households that were near poverty.
However, it would be difficult for the poor and households near poverty to meet the demands of production scale necessary to be eligible for agricultural insurance, said representatives from northern Nam Dinh Province and southern Soc Trang Province.
In addition, the standard processes of agricultural production in the fields of rice cultivation and livestock, poultry and fish farms were not appropriate to the real conditions of each locality, said Vu The Ninh, a representative from northern Bac Ninh Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
"The processes need changing to be applicable to real local situations," said Ninh.
According to Nguyen Phung Hoan, deputy director of Nam Dinh Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, natural calamities and outbreaks of diseases that caused substantial damage to agricultural production have not been listed adequately in the programme.
With support from the Government, insurance companies committed to try their best to ensure the success of the pilot programme on agricultural insurance, said president of the Association of Vietnamese Insurers Trinh Quang Tuyen.
In addition, the responsibilities of insurance companies and those of farmers also play important roles in limiting the damage to agricultural production when diseases or natural calamities occur, he said.
According to Hung, three insurance companies have been appointed by the Ministry of Finance to be in charge of carrying out agricultural insurance.
"The success of the pilot programme on agricultural insurance should be evaluated through the diminution of damage to both farmers and insurance companies," Hung said.
The pilot programme will be applied in 20 provinces throughout the country to the end of 2013 in the four fields of rice cultivation and cattle, poultry and fish farms.
Poor households and those near poverty will receive support from the Government to join the pilot programme with authorities covering 100 per cent and 80 per cent of insurance costs, respectively.

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