The Cebu city government has assisted 79 hog farmers in securing livestock insurance amid the resurgence of African swine fever (ASF). This insurance would protect swine farmers from the negative economic impact caused by the ASF.The insurance policies were issued by the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC) to the 79 hog farmers cover 405 breeding and fattening hogs.
New Brunswick produced nearly two million litres (527,000 gallons) of maple syrup last year, compared to the year before when more than three million litres (811,000 gallons) were produced. While Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has a program that pays agricultural producers in advance to helpthemsurvive through the off-season, during a bad year, producers might struggle to reimburse the program. New insurance program will allow producers to cover costs during years like the one that just passed.
If crop insurance payments to Canadian farmers were put on a line graph, from 2018 to 2022 the graph would look like a hockey stick. Statistics Canada data shows that crop insurance gross payments were $890 million in 2018. By 2021 that figure had climbed to $3.8 billion and then hit $4.897 billion in 2022.
An industry-government forage insurance task team is working on ways to make forage insurance more widely available across the country. Currently, producers can insure forages under AgriInsurance, but other forage insurance is not equal across Canada and very few forage producers use it.
The Brazilian insurance company Essor, part of the giant French reinsurance group Scor, sold agribusiness insurance for the illegal cultivation of soy within the Monte Caseros Indigenous Land, in the towns of Ibiraiaras and Muliterno, both in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil.
One of the insurance products of the centralized economy period was the insurance of agricultural products. The insurance of agricultural crops covered crops from the risks of fire, hail, torrential rains, hurricanes, frosts or floods. For the insurance of agricultural crops, an annual quota was paid that varied for each type of plant.
Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is offering an incentive for farmers who plant cover crops in the form of a discount for crop insurance. In its eighth year, this groundbreaking program has set a standard for other states and the federal government to follow.
Farmers owning allegiance to Tamil Nadu Cauvery Farmers Association staged protests in different parts of Delta districts, including Nagapattinam, protesting against delay in distribution of compensation for crop losses under the government’s insurance scheme. While the farmers blocked Puthur Road here, while in Vedaranyam taluk, protests took place in Sengathalai village.
The bill provides an additional $14 billion to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to assist agriculture producers impacted by losses caused by natural disasters in 2023.The bipartisan Agriculture Disaster Supplemental Appropriations Act would allow the federal government to provide reasonable assistance as necessary for those in our agricultural industry to recover and continue moving forward.
Much of the southern New South Wales cropping belt was hit by unseasonably late frosts last month. Temperatures dropped to minus 6 degrees Celsius, meaning some crops will need to be cut for hay. Farmers are still assessing the damage to cereal crops such as wheat and barley.
Growers across south-eastern Australia are making some challenging decisions about the future of winter crops hit by a series of frosts over the past fortnight. Depending on the severity and extent of frost on already moisture-stressed crops, the need for fodder, and the outlook for hay and grain prices, frosted crops are being partially or fully cut for hay, sprayed out, grazed out, or deemed worth taking through to harvest.
Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production, company and agriculture officials said on Monday. More than 100 deaths across a half-dozen states have been attributed to the powerful stormthat slammed into Florida Big Bend region
Farmers say data released in Mayiladuthurai was incomplete and did not reflect the ground reality while those in Nagapattinam want the government not to engage private insurance companies and to handle the issue directly
The “Beginners Guide to Crop Insurance,” recently released by the USDA Risk Management Agency, is available in Spanish and English.This guide provides basic information about crop insurance, a handy glossary of terms, contact information for RMA regional offices and links to other resources.
Heavy to very heavy rainfall that continued for 48 hours last week triggered floods and landslides, causing an estimated Rs17 billion in losses to Nepal economy, according to the government preliminary report unveiled on Tuesday. Economists, however, say the actual losses could be more than three times the preliminary estimate.
The P.E.I. government will help the aquaculture industry on P.E.I. with insurance measures if it can get the federal government on board as a partner.The federal and provincial governments support the agriculture industry on P.E.I. with crop insurance but that was not the case with the aquaculture, which produces 45 million pounds (24 million kilograms) of muscles and 10 million pounds (4.6 million kilograms) of oysters a year among other products.