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Development and structural changes in Turkish agricultural insurance policy
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insurance agent training and marketing activities within this framework (TSRBS 2006).
In Figure 5, the distribution of agricultural insurances as field of products in 2007–2008
can be seen. The year of 2007 can be accepted as a first year because of the written
premiums began in the middle of 2006. The government supported agricultural insurance
share in total agricultural insurance in terms of written premiums was 70.5% in 2004.
In 2008, the share of government supported (GS) agricultural insurances increased to
80.2%. Consequently, government supports have been used extensively on agricultural
sector not so long time passed from beginning of new agricultural insurance system.
Livestock
P3.2%
Poultry
0.1%
Greenhouse
(GS)
1.6%
Livestock
(GS) 6,4%
16.4%
ps (GS)
Hail
21,3% 21.3%
Fig. 5. Distribution of agricultural insurances as written premiums (in %)
Rys. 5. Charakterystka ubezpieczeń rolniczych według składek ubezpieczeniowych (w %)
Source:
Źródło:
Livestock
(GS)
14.2%
Poultry
(GS)
0.6%
Crops
(GS)
63.8%
Hail
16.6%
Poultry
(GS)
0.4%
Crops
(GS)
51.4%
The Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey.
The Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey.
Livestock
8.1%
Poultry
0.2%
Greenhouse
(GS)
2.3%
Figure 6 shows that the government supported agricultural insurance polices were used
mostly (nearly 97%) for crops. However, the average written premiums was the lowest on
policies for hail (196 TRY) and crops (305 TRY) in 2008 while these amounts were 173
TRY and 223 TRY respectively in 2007. The effect of new system on the increasing of
average written premiums is also seen from these figures.
250000
200000
150000
100000
50000
Hail; 97718
Livestock; 8775
Crops (GS); 209077
Poultry; 253
Greenhouse (GS);
1396
Livestock (GS); 10129
Poultry (GS); 41
Hail; 103.626
Livestock; 2.565
Crops (GS); 244.142
Poultry; 164
Greenhouse (GS);
2.446
Livestock (GS); 8.164
Poultry (GS); 119
Fig. 6.
Rys. 6.
Source:
Źródło:
0
2007 2008
Distrubition of agricultural insurances as number of policies
Charakterystyka rolniczych ubezpieczeń według liczby polis
The Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey.
The Association of the Insurance and Reinsurance Companies of Turkey.
Oeconomia 9 (1) 2010