New space-information systems of efficient insurance of government-subsidized agricultural lands will be developed in the Kuban region according to an agreement on scientific, technical and industrial cooperation signed between the region’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Scientific Industrial Trust Barl.

According to a Ministry spokesperson, the new system will be based on the data received from the existing systems of remote probing of lands and on-land researches. It will improve the efficiency of the use of the state subsidies in the agricultural sector.

First, the new space-information systems will be implemented in the framework of a pilot project. Then similar practice will be spread to a number of other Russian regions.

The main advantage of the idea is that the use of space technologies in agrarian insurance will contribute to the improvement of mutual trust between the insurers and farmers when settling the losses. Besides, the new systems will make it possible to swiftly react to the weather changes and take urgent measures to lessen their negative impact upon the harvest.

As a result, the hi-tech space support will help increase the resistance of agricultural productions to climatic changes and consequently growth of the yields.

By the way. In 2015, the total cost of milk, meat and other stock-raising products manufactured in the Krasnodar region exceeded 90 bn rubles, or nearly 12 bn more than in 2014.

Source - yugtimes.com