The Federation of Agriculture of Paraná – FAEP wants more resources for rural insurance. This week, the entity sent a letter to the members of the State’s Parliament of Agriculture (FPA), which requests the addition of R $ 150 million to the budget of the Rural Insurance Premium (PSR) Grant Program.
According to the president of the federation, Ágide Meneguette, who signed the document, the R $ 450 million for rural insurance in PL 27/2018-CN were insufficient, covering less than 10% of the country’s agricultural area. “If the promise of the R $ 600 million rural insurance budget of 2019 is not fulfilled, more than 37,000 farmers throughout the country will no longer have access to subsidized rural insurance,” he warns.
The letter sent to the government says that in 2018, insurers are paying more than R $ 320 million in compensation to producers for the drought losses that affected the second harvest corn crops in. South. To meet all the existing demand for rural insurance in the country would require three times the amount currently in the LOA.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.