The Union of Farmers and Ranchers Unions, as it did last month after the announcement of the changes in the insurance lines, is opposed to the cuts promoted by the Agroseguro monopoly with the approval of ENESA for citrus insurance and that they leave farmers unprotected without responding to the reality that the sector is going through.
Unión de Uniones considers that the cuts in flexibility and insurance coverage are an outrage by Agroseguro and ENESA for the citrus sector, in the face of a climate change scenario with hail accidents earlier and earlier.
The cuts in flexibility and insurance coverage are an outrage for Agroseguro and ENESA for the citrus sector
Faced with this situation, the organization insists that it is more essential than ever to have insurance that is as complete as possible, adapted to the needs of farmers, who should be the most direct beneficiaries of agricultural insurance.
“We cannot go back and return to the aid decrees when accidents occur due to not having the productions insured by not being able to ensure that the insurance companies respond as they should to the risks that affect the sector and the farms”, they comment from the organization.
Unión de Uniones points out that an increase in the accident rate cannot be translated into cuts because that is precisely the nature of insurance: to cover accidents and, in the case of farmers, uncontrollable accidents.
An increase in the accident rate cannot be translated into cuts because that is precisely the nature of insurance
The organization regrets that Agroseguro puffs out its chest, saying that in 2022 its compensation has reached historic highs when, if this has happened, it has been to the detriment of agricultural activity and, specifically, citrus, one of the sectors indicated by the entity itself. and that amounts to damages worth 52.1 million, an amount that falls short in certain producing areas where entire crops have been lost.
In this sense, Unión de Uniones has addressed a letter to the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planasasking him to recover wind damage to quality in the lemon crop and to maintain all the coverage and guarantees of the current citrus insurance, including the “extension of guarantees for early hailstones” in the 2023 plan.
Likewise, he insists that agricultural insurance has to be adapted to the sector and not to the priorities and cuts imposed by insurers and the monopoly in which they are grouped. He also criticizes the fact that the rejection of both the takeover bids and the autonomous communities has been ignored when these modifications were presented. “Agroseguro has to consider who it works for and why it was created,” the organization concludes.
