{"id":45876,"date":"2012-12-27T07:40:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T07:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/12\/27\/237274\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:01:46","slug":"wb-experts-study-on-possible-introduction-of-insurance-in-armenian-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/12\/27\/45876\/","title":{"rendered":"WB experts study on possible introduction of insurance in Armenian agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 27. \/ARKA\/<\/strong>. World Bank experts are looking into introduction of insurance in Armenian agrarian sector, Armenian minister of agriculture Sergo Karapetyan told journalists Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>International experience should be studied first, before setting priorities, the minister said.<br \/>\nHe pointed out that the ministry intends to adopt insurance system first in livestock farming.<br \/>\nAccording to the minister, insurance is not a priority for Armenia due to its high costs. Yet, Armenia needs to take steps toward introduction of insurance system, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say insurance is quite risky in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Armenian premier Tigran Sargsyan said that agricultural insurance is not possible in the country as farmers are not ready for additional expenses.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently some 340,000 farms in Armenia; the average plot size is only 1.2 hectares per farm.<\/p>\n<p>Experts estimate that losses suffered by farms due to hail total about $30 million every year.\u00a0 \u20130\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Bank experts are looking into introduction of insurance in Armenian agrarian sector, Armenian minister of agriculture Sergo Karapetyan told journalists Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12149,9216],"tags":[12868,15837,15891,12183,414],"class_list":{"0":"post-45876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-insurance-market","7":"category-news","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-insurance-2","11":"tag-world-bank","12":"tag-414"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}