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Russia: New insurance programme for pig farmers

  • 1 Dec 08:34

The Russian National Union of Agricultural Insurers has started working on a special insurance programme for the country’s pig industry. That was explained by Kornei Bizhdov, the union’s president at the recent business meeting ‘Result of 2016. Problems and perspectives’ in Moscow. Bizhdov said that a new insurance programme should solve coverage issues and would have to provide additional protection, in order to avoid losses for producers in caseAfrican Swine Fever (ASF)is confirmed on farms. The set-up of the programme should involve pig farms as much as possible. Bizhdov added that the union expects to receive some state support for. Read more...