Fruit tree insurance can now be subscribed for the 2024 campaign

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2023-12-02 13:39:36

On December 1, the subscription period for the fruit tree insurance (apricot, plum, apple, peach, nectarine, Paraguayan, pear and platerina) for the next campaign through the modules that include the broadest insurance options: frost and poor fruit set, hail and rain and flooding, precisely the risks that the sector suffers on a more regular basis.

The new fruit insurance plan presents several new features. Among them, the individualization of coverage for those insured with repeated and high accident rates stands out.

A measure that specifically affects only 6% of those insured in the last campaign and prevents the other 94% of insured fruit growers from being harmed by the results of other producers. Furthermore, fruit tree insurance will allow those plantations whose production is not commercially profitable in their first productive year to be insured as seedlings, and increases the insured price for mid-season and late-season nectarines to adjust it to market conditions.

2023 campaign compensation

The 2023 fruit tree insurance campaign has closed with 105 million euros in compensation, already paid practically in full. They correspond mainly to insured fruit growers in the Region of Murcia (46.3 million euros), Aragón (14.1 million), Extremadura (12.6 million), La Rioja (8.6 million), Catalonia (7.9 million ) and Castilla-La Mancha (7.1 million). The rest is distributed among producers from Andalusia, the Valencian Community, Navarra, Castilla y León, the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country.

Temperature fluctuations, with values ​​above normal in March and April and frost during the first week of April, decisively influenced the flowering and setting of fruit species, mainly stone, located in Extremadura, Region of Murcia and others. producing regions. The subsequent rain and hail storms also caused considerable damage between June and September, once the harvest was already established on the trees.

Fruit tree accidents 2023 campaign

Fruit tree insurance also showed significant growth in insurance in the last campaign, with more than 1,228 million euros of insured capital (9% more than the previous campaign) and 2.14 million tons insured (2. .5% more). The implementation of insurance exceeded 80% of production.

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