OREANDA-NEWS. May 30, 2011. In 2010 Ingosstrakh OJSIC paid out to Russian agrarian producers 530.9 million rubles. It was reported at the press-conference by the deputy director general of Ingosstrakh OJSIC, Nikolai Galushin.

The payments under insurance of agricultural crops and perennial plants in 2010 amounted 438,7 million rubles; fish stocks grown by specialized companies – 12,4 million rubles; animals (livestock, swines, sheep, horses and poultry) – 8,1 million rubles; other agrarian property (commercial grain stock, production facilities, agricultural equipment and machinery) made up 71,7 million rubles. Payments under the 2010 contracts on agricultural crops and perennial plants insurance are being continued in the current year and for the present they have amounted 782 million rubles.

From among severe losses of 2010 in agro-industrial insurance one can mention payments connected with unprecedented summer drought. For example, more than 114 million rubles were paid by Ingosstrakh OJSIC to the producer from Volgograd oblast due to the apple harvest loss. In Tula oblast, the peasant-farmers’ company Omela received 20,6 million rubles for the damaged potatoes plantings. In Voronezh oblast, the farm AIC Rusich JSC for the damage caused by the summer drought to the winter wheat crop was compensated the loss of 23, 3 million rubles. One of the fishery farms in Karelia was paid 14 million rubles for the lost trout.

Not only drought became a trial for the agrarian producers last year. For example, strong hail damaged the plantations of the agrarian-industrial company Zavety Illicha („Lenin’s Testaments”) in Kalmykia. The loss of 0,6 million rubles was fully compensated by Ingosstrakh OJSIC.

The efficient and complete settlement of losses in the villages is a priority task for the company. It should also be noted that the economic damage from the abnormal last summer weather conditions would have been less, if the agrarian producers and state authorities had admitted that the insurance is a very important factor of our country’s general food safety.