Dmitry Patrushev noted that the state pays great attention to the development of agricultural insurance in Russia. In 2019 under the "common" grants to support this direction provides about 1.5 billion rubles, which is almost a third higher than last year. Also as part of an unrelated support in crop production in 2019 founded nearly 1.4 billion: these funds will be allocated in priority to the insured acreage.
The Minister said that the Ministry of agriculture came to the conclusion that the creation of specialized insurance companies that are under the control of the state, will reduce competition and monopolization in the market of agricultural insurance, it will not contribute to the effective work of the insurance mechanism as a whole.
"Development of insurance of risks of crop production – the main priority for the NSA for 2019, – stressed Roots of biggov. – Preliminary results of 2018 on agricultural insurance with state support have shown that due to the measures taken by regional bodies APK for the first time provided almost full subsidization of insurance contracts: as at 31 December insurance policies of the crop were paid at 98% of the needs under the contracts of insurance were assessed 994 million, paid 978 million rubles, of which 477 million rubles were means of state support. In previous years this date was paid about 60-70% of the insurance premium, that is, bodies APK significantly underfunded crop insurance, while farmers who paid for my half of the contribution".
"Now the agricultural insurance system the task is to approximate the conditions of insurance coverage with government support to the needs of the agricultural sector as regards the insurance programs, and the procedures for the conclusion of contracts and claims management. This should contribute to and changes in relevant legislation", – said the President of the NSA.
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