Expansion of agricultural insurance in Azerbaijan to facilitate access to funding

  26 November 2015    Read: 872
Expansion of agricultural insurance in Azerbaijan to facilitate access to funding
"Expansion of agricultural insurance in Azerbaijan will facilitate the access of producers to financial sources", Namig Khalilov, head of State Insurance Supervision Service of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Azerbaijan told, AzVision.az reports.
Khalilov noted, although the share of the agricultural sector in GDP is low, Azerbaijan can be considered as an agricultural country: "Approximately 45% of the people lives in rural areas.

In this regard, the development of the agricultural sector contributes to the development country. Clearly, this is a potential area for growth in GDP. Furthermore, development of the agricultural sector also allows to figure out social problems and to reduce unemployment."

"Additionally, development of the agricultural sector ensures food security. International experience shows, sustainable development of the sector requires certain funding mechanisms.

Insurance is a mechanism that enables to protect the financial stability of agricultural producers. Today, this area is under-developed. In this manner, we need to have a certain infrastructure, statistical database, to define the word “risk”and to train insurance experts. Our main goal is to introduce international experience in Azerbaijan ", N.Khalilov said.

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