Tanzania Preparing to Provide Crop Insurance
Tanzania is gearing up efforts for a strategy that will extend insurance coverage to agriculture sector. The idea is to ensure farmers get covered so that they cut down the amount of loss they tend to incurs in the event of calamities such as floods and drought.
Farmers put a lot effort, yet they often end up frustrated when their produce is hit by disasters at the late stage.
The experts say that, since rains have been largely unreliable mainly due to global warming and climate change, small-scale farmers have often seen their efforts go to waste.
Insuring farmers is, therefore, a very important move, considering that agriculture, especially smallholder farming, employs about 70 per cent of Tanzania's population.
Jeff Knezovich