Agriculture Products Insurance Assessment of Iran with Sustainable Agriculture Approach

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

Hamdollah  Pishro ¹ (ندارد)
Parvaneh.  Azizi ² (ندارد)
Roza  Azarkamad ³ (عهده دار مکاتبات)

Received: 2011-05-22 Accepted : 2011-10-30 Published : 2011-10-23

Keywords: Agriculture Insurance, Sustainable development, Agriculture&#x0D, &#x0D, Development,

Abstract :

In general, insurance is a form of risk management used to hedge against acontingent loss. Agriculture insurance is a special line of property insurance applied toagricultural firms. As well as Agriculture insurance is one of the most efficient waysof managing the risks inherent to farming. Sustainable agriculture integrates threemain goals-environmental health, economic profitability, and social and economicequity. Agriculture insurance is one of sustainable agriculture economics dimension.The aim of the study is to analyzes Agriculture insurance of Iran. The report starts withthe description of sustainable development definition and Sustainable agricultureindexes. Than evaluate the performance of agriculture insurance deals during 2006-2007. Gardens and farms are highly vulnerable, because are low water resources andIran is located on the desert region.The findings of this study show that implementation of agriculture insurance, risk ofoperating in this sector has reduced somewhat. Also performed calculations shows thatthe farmers funds received has been able to produce only 10 percent of the productcost. Other results show that only 12 percent of the garden farm country s have beensubject to insurance. So Iran agriculture is less stable in terms of agriculture insurance.