The government has launched an insurance campaign for Thailand's more than 4.5m cattle farmers.
The government has been working on a crop insurance plan targeted at farmers, National Food Security & Research Minister Syed Fakhar Imam has revealed.
Australian farmers are facing increasingly frequent droughts, floods, hailstorms and bushfires, resulting in insurance premiums rising to the point where cancelling or underinsuring are the only options.
A collaborative study by Cornell University and Washington State University has found that some farmers will have to decide between either low yields or revenue instability as a result of climate change.
The CBIRC will launch a three-year action plan to introduce agricultural insurance risk zoning, according to Mr Liang Tao, CBIRC vice chairman.
A new insurance initiative has been started aimed at helping smallholder farmers in Bangladesh who are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events.
The Congress Party has demanded that the government declare locust attacks in the country as a natural disaster and farmers be given compensation under the crop insurance scheme.
Bima Mandi, an InsurTech launched in India, will focus exclusively on rural markets and make available specific products catering to this segment of the population.
The Indonesian government is expanding a micro insurance scheme for fish farmers, in order to minimise risks being faced by small-scale aquaculture producers.
The lack of data on crops, pests and related agricultural matters, is one challenge facing the agricultural insurance segment, according to the Insurance Federation of Egypt (IFE) which is working to develop this class of insurance.