Oksana Lut urged gardeners to use crop insurance tools and treat this very carefully.
The President of the National Union of Agro insurers Korney Bizhdov added that the NSA had previously drawn attention to the critical vulnerability of Russian horticulture.
Union insurance companies are ready to organize insurance for gardens and note a growing interest from the gardening industry in this topic, as discussed at the recent "PRO Apple" conference.
“We will develop crop insurance and seek necessary solutions together with the gardeners,” he said.
Under government support conditions, it is possible to insure both perennial plantings and their yield. Thus, in 2023, almost 21 thousand hectares of perennial plantings were insured in 9 regions of Russia, including the harvested crop, under the terms of state support.
The largest area - 12.9 thousand hectares - was insured in the Lipetsk region, where primarily hop growers obtained protection. In other regions, plots were also insured: 6.5 thousand hectares in the Krasnodar Territory, 1.5 thousand hectares in the Republic of Crimea, less than 0.5 thousand hectares in the Stavropol Territory, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the Belgorod and Bryansk regions, as well as in the Republic of Dagestan.
During the previous year, farms in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic and in the Stavropol Territory received insurance payouts of 258 million rubles due to crop and seedling loss.