The changes are to adjust Polish law to EU rules on state aid and encourage farmers to enter into insurance.
limit will be raised to 65 per cent.
So far the budget dopłacał from 40 to 50 percent. premiums for crop insurance. The author of the project – Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – wants to raise this limit to 65 percent. This mark will allow you to get under the condition that the tariff rates set by the insurance companies will not be higher than 3.5 percent. sum insured crop cereals, maize, spring oilseed rape, turnip, potatoes or sugar beet and 5 percent. sum insured crop of winter oilseed rape, vegetables, water, hops, tobacco, fruit trees and shrubs, strawberries or legumes.
If tariff rates will be higher than 3.5 and 5 percent., and do not exceed 6 percent. sum insured, subsidies to farmers’ contributions will be applied to the amount only to 3.5 or 5 percent. the sum insured.
Special treatment of fruit and vegetables
Ministry of Agriculture wants but exceptionally treated fruit and vegetables, and make payments to the rates even when insurance rates exceed 6 percent. sum insured crops. Until now it was impossible.
According to the story if the insurance tariff rate of ground vegetables and fruit trees and shrubs will exceed 6 percent. the sum insured, the budget will be dopłacał to give a 5 percent premium. the sum insured and the remaining part of the premium in full to pay the farmer.
unprotected crops
How justifies the Ministry of Agriculture, rates for these crops are set by most insurers at a level exceeding 6 percent. sum insured, which farmers can not obtain subsidies from the budget for premiums. As a result, in general forgo insurance, and their crops are not protected.
Addressing this matter is all the more important that – according resort – fruit production in Poland is steadily growing from 1.7 million tonnes in 2007. 3 , 9 million tons in 2013., with increasing acreage of fruit with 409.9 thousand. ha in 2009. to 426 thousand. ha in 2013. annual vegetable production in Poland remains at the level of approx. 5.4 million tonnes at an area of over 180 thousand. ha.
Meanwhile, in 2013. insured subject only approx. 11 thousand. ha of fruit trees and shrubs, and approx. 12 thousand. hectares of field vegetables.
EU recommends insurance
Insurance protection Polish farmers growing steadily but still has not reached the level recommended by the EU. In 2013. Covered by insurance was ok. 3.4 million hectares of crops from 2.8 million hectares in 2012. During the first year of the introduction of insurance insurance coverage subject to only 312 thousand. ha. Meanwhile, according to EU legislation should be half of the insured crop, which is approx. 6 million ha.
PAP, abo
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