This year, 78 crop disaster insurance and 20 agricultural income stabilization insurance policies are being operated.

(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yoon-gu = The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on the 1st that it will expand the target items and regions for agricultural crop disaster insurance and agricultural income stabilization insurance this year. Agricultural crop disaster insurance added two items (cucumber and greenhouse perilla leaves) to increase the total to 78 items. Agricultural income stabilization insurance expanded to 20 items by adding five items (apple, pear, open-field leek, greenhouse leek, greenhouse watermelon). Agricultural crop disaster insurance will rapidly expand the target regions if certain criteria are met, and agricultural income stabilization insurance will operate for 14 items, excluding rice from the 15 items operated last year, nationwide. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs will convert the product that compensates for production cost losses until the occurrence of a disaster to a product that compensates for yield ...