The Performance and Improvement Strategies of Crop Natural Disaster Insurance in Korea

Won-ho Chung
ABSTRACT Crop natural disaster insurance program in Korea has rapidly grown not only in quantity but in quality for 15 years since it was introduced in 2001. Number of agricultural items covered by the program was expanded from two in 2001 to 46 in 2015 and number of participating farmers...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Explore Government Support Measures and Implications of Crop Insurance from International Experience

Min-Hsien Yang
ABSTRACT Crop insurance is one of the more important branches of agricultural insurance, and because of global climate change, it is becoming more important for the financial wellbeing of the agricultural sectors across many countries. However, because many commercial insurance companies do not...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Sustainable Growth in Crop Natural Disaster Insurance: Experiences of Japan

Futoshi Okada
  ABSTRACT A famous insurance professional said, “Insurance is the first choice and the last choice.” The axiom　means that we cannot get any protection without buying insurance but cost of insurance is so high that we have to engage loss control to reduce the total cost. One main...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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New Strategies for Greater Growth and Development of the Agriculture Sector in Malaysia

Rozhan Abu Dardak
Introduction The Malaysian government launched its Eleventh Malaysia Plan (EMP) for the period of 2016-2020, last year. The EMP is considered as the last and critical economic development plan in Malaysia’s journey to become a developed nation in 2020. It is a comprehensive strategy that focuses...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Overview
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Developing Agro Science and Techno Park to Accelerate Technology Disemination and Promote Agribusiness in Indonesia

Tahlim Sudaryanto
Introduction As stated in the Midterm Development Plan of 2015-2019, the current Indonesian administration has set a target to establish 100 Science and Techno Parks in all provinces of the country by 2019.  As part of this national program the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has establised...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agricultural science policies
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