By: Richard Dankwa:
The 2014 national best farmer, Mr. George Asamoah has challenged the idea that the insurance companies should design policies for the agric sector as the country is experiencing less than 30 percent of rainfall than it did a decade ago.
He made the call following suggestions by deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan has identified that an industrialized insurance agriculture scheme will go a long way to make the agric sector unique and make it attractive to investors, adding that the risks associated with agriculture were high for farmers hence the need for insurance to seriously consider packages for the agric sector.
But Mr. Asamoah who was speaking to Rite news in an interview argued that the Ministry of Food and Agriculture should instead focus on the challenges facing the small holder farmers such as post-harvest losses, access to irrigation facilities to do all year farming, access to ready market among others.
According to him, government should come out with policies that will help farmers to get access to all these facilities to help boost the agric sector.
Meanwhile, 2016 national best farmer, Mr. Awudu Karim has welcomed the idea that insurance companies should design policies for farmers. This according to him is in line with the risks associated with agriculture which are high for the farmers hence the need for insurers to seriously consider insurance packages for the agric sector.
He has thus suggested that all farmers get insured since it is one of life’s necessities which will also protect their farming activities.
Source: ritefmonline.org
