Insurance and Agribusiness: Risks in Agriculture and transfer mechanisms available in the market

Abstract

Currently, the agricultural industry represents an important area of development for new technologies that seek to contribute to improve qualities and production conditions, preserve products and increase the shelf life of crops. Increasing the post-harvest time of the fruit necessarily implies increasing the chain of custody and maintenance of the products, which results in risks of greater continuity for the producer or, rightly, new risks. In this context, it is important to know how the insurance market reacted to this new scenario, and how the new technologies have influenced of the creation about the new insurance or risk transfer mechanisms.