Agriculture
Accurately measure agriculture risk and close the insurance coverage gap.
Persistent La Niña Conditions Aggravate Drought-Associated Crop Losses in Southern Brazil in 2021–22
Understand Your Risk
Manage the risk from growing and evolving agricultural markets across all key coverages and schemes with the Moody's India, China and Brazil Agricultural Models.
Grow and Diversify
Target the most profitable areas of growth with a breakdown of results by region and crop type.
Enhance Risk Pricing
Extend the view of risk beyond historical data to overcome the challenge of actuarial risk pricing of agriculture with Moody's RMS models.
Close the Insurance Gap
Keep up with continually evolving markets to help close the insurance coverage gap.
China Agricultural Model
China mainland has the largest livestock and forestry insurance portfolio in the world and also boasts the second-largest market for agriculture insurance after the U.S. As the market continues to develop and evolve, deeper understanding has never been more important. The Moody's RMS China Agricultural Model can help close the insurance coverage gap and accurately measure crop, livestock, and forestry risks at a country level consistent with the insurance coverage in China mainland.
India Agricultural Model
India is the largest market for weather and yield index-based agriculture insurance schemes. The agricultural land in India relies on rainfall for irrigation. Being rain-fed, the area is also at increased likelihood of monsoon rainfalls. If not measured accurately, this poses a huge challenge for insurers and reinsurers. The Moody's RMS India Agricultural Model covers weather (WBCIS) and yield (mNAIS, currently operated within PMFBY scheme) index-based insurance contracts at the district level.
Brazil Agricultural Model
Brazil is the fourth largest agricultural producing country in the world whose agricultural insurance premiums have rapidly grown to over $1 billion since the introduction of the rural insurance premium subsidy program in 2006. The Moody’s RMS Brazil Agricultural Model supports the modeling of both multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) and revenue insurance for the eight top premium crops in the country to assist (re)insurers in effectively underwriting and managing this risk.
Regional and Country Agriculture Models
Regional Models
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Resources
Persistent La Niña Conditions Aggravate Drought-Associated...
Southern Brazil was impacted by drought conditions during the 2021–22 growing season, which resulted in harvest failures for major cash crops such as soybean, first-season corn, and wheat. This delivered both significant losses for the insurance industry and a year-on-year reduction in Brazil’s agricultural GDP by eight percent in the first quarter of 2022. What were the main factors driving these losses, how often can we expect such conditions, and what might we expect in forthcoming years? Weather...
Coming Together to Build a Resilient India Agriculture Ins...
India is an agricultural powerhouse, ranked second in the world in terms of its level of agricultural output. With 58 percent of the rural population of India reliant on agriculture for their livelihood (and a total figure of 2.2 billion across Asia) plus more than fifty percent of total working population of India employed in the food industry, ensuring that farmers are resilient and can rebuild after crop setbacks is a top priority for the country. This challenge is being tackled. For India, agricultural in...
Addressing the Challenges in Assessing Livestock Insurance...
This article was originally published in Insurance Day, click here to view the original article. Livestock insurance represents a significant part of global agriculture premium. Traditional indemnity insurance products are available, complemented with less common products like parametric index insurance. Managing livestock insurance is a complex business, as livestock mortality is a recurring event. China is one of the biggest players as the world’s largest livestock producer. In China, livestock...
Harvesting Opportunity
This report provides insurers interested in reinsuring crop business schemes in India with an overview of the (re)insurance market.
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