The President believes that this could increase the number of contributors and make policies cheaper in order to face extreme climates.
As part of the opening of the 26th Expoactiva, in Soriano, the president Luis Lacalle Pou, proposed the creation of a mandatory basic insurance for producers so that they can face the consequences of extreme climates. Making it mandatory would help reduce the number of contributors and make policies cheaper.
According to the president, “Perhaps the next State policy will be an irrigation policy” similar to those that exist in forestry. He also recalled that his government took some 30 “urgent” measures seeking to alleviate the water deficit crisis that triggered the declaration of an agricultural emergency for the third consecutive year.
The Head of State recalled that the hectares that are insured are still few and that an insurance similar to the one compulsory car insurance (SOA) as an option. For the President, a measure of these characteristics would make the policy economical enough so that producers “do not stay by the side of the road” in the face of a drought like the current one.
In turn, he stated that he believes that if irrigation ceases to be strictly treated by the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) and joint venture and it becomes a State policy, with the insurance policy and the plans to establish “the face with which we will look at the process will be different” in a context of frequent droughts.
The “gold mesh” will suffer a major setback, according to Mattos
The holder of the MGAP, fernando mattosassured the “gold mesh” (large producer) will suffer “a major setback”, but finally “he will rise up and lead the development and economic growth of the country”. Along these lines, he affirmed that “the government will be at his side, supporting all elements of the State.”
Likewise, the hierarch lamented the irreversible damage that some crops present, as well as the increasing mortality of livestock, something that is causing large capital losses. On this issue, he argued that the 30 measures adopted by the government to assist producers “are not a static and definitive package,” but one that the government “constantly reviews.”
Source: Ambito
