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Agriculture insurance

Course Objectives

This program provides an insight into the mechanism of agriculture insurance. This program will also discuss methods of handling agriculture's risks, the insurance market, the duties of brokers and agents and their responsibilities in agricultural insurance. Agricultural insurance is one tool to manage the risks that may arise in agricultural production, which will actively be used by financial intermediaries to hedge the financing of agricultural products.

Course Objectives

  1. To help students understand the use of agricultural insurance products
  2. To help students understand the design and development of new products in agricultural insurance
  3. To equip candidates with the essential knowledge of agriculture's risks and insurance policies.

Learning outcomes

At the end of the program, participants should be able to:

  1. To understand the principles, concepts of the agricultural insurance
  2. To identify the technical and legal principal of agricultural insurance.
  3. To understand the methods of handling agricultural risks.
Further reading
  • society for human resource management (2008), Weathering Storms: Human resources in Difficult times. This book is published by society for human resource management (SHRN).
  • Raju,S., & Chand ,R.(2010). agricultural risk and insurance in India-problems & prospects, Academic foundation
  • Pramod,M.(2011). Agricultural risk, insurance & income. Avebury
  • Miller,A.,Dobbins, C., Pritchett,j., Boehlje, M.& Ehmke, C. (2004). Risk management for famers. Purdue University- Staff paper 04-11, September 2004
  • Agricultural Management ,marketing and finance, occasional paper no. 12 by Myong Goo KANG,2007.
  • Agriculture risks and risk management, paper November 2011
  • Costello,R., M., (2012). crop insurance: Lowa license exam manual, CreateSpace independent publishing platform
  • Hueth,R., M. (2011). Econimic of Agricuturecrop insurance: theory and evidence springer.
  • Jaffee,S., Siegel,P., & Andrews,C.(2010). Rapid Agricultural supply Chain Risk Assesment :Aconceptual frame work. The world bank: washingtion.D.C.
  • Kahan, D. (2008). Managing agricultural production Risk. World Bank Report no.32727-GLB
  • Mahul,O.,& Stutley, C. (2010). Government support to agriculutral insurance: challanges and optionss for developing countries.http://doi.org/10.1596/978 0821382172
  • Mishra, P K, "Agricultural insurance: Principles and organization and application to developing countries,"1st edition,2003, oxford &IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd
  • jerry R. Skees, Barry j. Barnett, and William G. Tomek, "crop insurance in developing countiries: an economic approach", 1st edition ,2017, springer
  • Venketesan and Manoj pandey, G. "handbook of international insurance: between global dynamics and local contingencies", 1st edition, 2017, springer
  • George E. Rejda , "principles of risk management and insurance" 13th edition, 2017, pearson
  • Michael w. elliott, Leonard W. Ortolano, and Elaine T. hall," insurance operations: Regulation, Risk Management, and compliance", 1st edition, 2001, McGraw-HILL Eduction
  • Barry Zalma. "Claims management: A comprehensive Guide", 3rd edition, 2009, national underwriter company
  • Chauhan,M.A.," Agricultural insurance: Theory and practice and application to developing countries", 1st edition, 2006, concept publishing company
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