Since the beginning of last week, COOMAP producers have been attending the Cooperative in order to have a new kind of insurance, which covers production loss due to hailstorms and frost. This insurance become effective from the next coffee flowering on. How does it work? The cooperative member first attends the Sustainability Department, where she/he updates registration data. Then she/he signs an insurance proposal with the insurance company in COOMAP auditorium.
Production Loss insurance is a new type of insurance, which has been developed for two years and is now reaching the market, assuring producers’ production and income in the case of hailstorms and frost. COOMAP even participated in its preparation. There were some meetings in the Cooperative auditorium with producers, COOMAP employees and Valleagro, the company responsible for developing the insurance.
COOMAP will pay for most of the insurance cost and the other part will be funded by a federal subsidy. This will be done for all producers, who won’t need to spend anything! In addition, COOMAP is preparing a report for each producer whose farms were hit by the frost, which occured during the last two weeks of July. Since the beginning of last month, field technicians have been visiting affected properties and surveying damages for each crop.
This report will guide the work that COOMAP is developing in the Crop Recovery Plan, for the adoption of the right measures, individually. “The Cooperative will always be on producer’s side and will study each case, each crop that has been hit by frost, in order to meet the needs of each producer,” said COOMAP’s sustainability manager, Rogério Araújo Pereira.
WHAT DO THE PRODUCERS THAT HAVE ALREADY DONE INSURANCE SAY
Joaquim Custódio Mendes, Mata neighborhood: “This insurance comes at a good time, because now we’re going to work harder and calmer. As it was, we were working undecided. We work in an open area, so we need to be confident in what we’re doing. It will be very good”.
José Donizete Mendes and Terezinha Irene Xavier Mendes, Cava neighborhood: “Insurance is very important and comes at a time when we need support to work more confidently. We don’t want to think about bad things happening again, but they do, we will have something to count on.”
Cláudio Begali, Ouvidor neighborhood: “It’s an extra reliability for us. I had never had any crop insurance. I had considerable losses many years ago. There was a very heavy ice rain around the year 2000, and there was a frost too. Now, if these thing happen again, we’ll have insurance, right!”
