Library of Congress |

Library of Congress

Matches in Library of Congress for { <http://lccn.loc.gov/2002283749> ?p ?o. }

Showing items 1 to 21 of 21 with 100 items per page.

2002283749 contributor B9282611.
2002283749 created "1998.".
2002283749 date "1998".
2002283749 date "1998.".
2002283749 dateCopyrighted "1998.".
2002283749 description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-162).".
2002283749 description "Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 Definition, Need and Benefits of Crop -- Insurance -- 1. What Is Insurance? -- 2. Functions of Insurance in Modern -- Society -- 3. Definition of Crop Insurance and Its -- Various Types -- 4. Need of Crop Insurance -- 5. Special Benefits of Crop Insurance -- 6. Insurance, Relief and Grants -- CHAPTER 2 Approaches to Crop Insurance -- 1. Philosophical Approach -- 2. Operational Approaches -- 3. Some Preliminary Observations -- CHAPTER 3 Problems and Difficulties -- 1. Basic Problems -- 1.1 Widespread Lack of Knowledge -- 1.2 Nature of Agriculture -- 1.3 Special Nature of Insurance of Crops -- 2. Operational Problems -- 2.1 Lack of Basic Data -- 2.2 Variety of Agricultural Practices -- 2.3 Existing Land Tenure and Land Record -- Systems -- 2.4 General Ignorance and Poverty of -- Farmers -- 2.5 Lack of Trained Personnel and Facilities -- for Study and Training -- 2.6 Lack of Adequate Infrastructure -- 2.7 Limited Financial Resources -- 3. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 Main Principles of Crop Insurance Appro- -- priate for Newly Developing Countries -- CHAPTER 5 Main Features of Crop Insurance Con- -- tract -- 1. Insurance of Crop Yield -- 2. Crops to Be Insured -- 3. Areas to Be Insured -- 4. Hazards to Be Covered -- 5. Duration of Cover -- 6. Eligibility for Insurance -- 7. Voluntary or Compulsory Insurance -- 8. Term of Insurance -- 9. Acreage Reports -- 10. Replanting of Crop and Release of -- Acreage -- 11. Quality Protection -- 12. Assignment to Creditors -- 13. Transfer of Interest -- 14. Voidance of Contract -- 15. Responsibility of the Insured -- CHAPTER 6 Essential Components of Multi-Risk Crop -- Insurance: Determination of Coverage -- 1. Special Nature of Crop Insurance Cover -- 2. Unit of Insurance-Area Basis or -- Individual Basis -- 3. Some Useful Guidelines -- 4. Determination of Insurance Cover or the -- Amount of Protection -- 5. Insurance Cover to Vary with Stages of -- Crop Production -- 6. Minimum Loss Exclusion or Deductible -- Clause -- 7. Justification of Limited Insurance Cover -- 8. Principal Factors Determining the Insur- -- ance Cover -- 9. Methods of determining Insurance Cover -- in Selected Countries -- 10. Crop-Loan Insurance Cover -- 11. Some Examples of Insurance Cover -- CHAPTER 7 Actuarial Methods: Determination of -- Premiums -- 1. Marriage Between Mutual Aid and -- Actuarial Technique -- 2. Meaning of Actuarial Techniques -- 3. Determination of Net Premium: Key to -- Actuarial Technique -- 4. Sharing of Premiums between Govern- -- ment, Farmers and Credit Agencies -- CHAPTER 8 Examples of Premiums and Premium -- Payment -- 1. Examples of Net Premiums -- 2. Premium Payment -- 2.1 Allocation of Premiums -- 2.2 Notification of Premiums -- 2.3 Due Date of Premium -- 2.4 Manner of Premium Payment -- 2.5 Recovery of Premiums -- 2.6 District-wise Adjustment of Premiums -- 2.7 Rebate and Discount of Premium -- CHAPTER 9 Loss Adjustment and Calculation of -- Indemnities -- 1. Loss Adjustment -- 1.1 Method of Loss Adjustment -- 1.2 Computation of Losses -- 1.3 Unit of Loss Adjustment -- 2. Calculation of Indemnities -- CHAPTER 10 Crop Insurance Reserve -- 1. Importance of Insurance Reserve -- 2. Need of Initial Reserve for Crop -- Insurance -- 3. Appropriate Size of Insurance Reserve -- 4. Reserve in Kind and Cash -- 5. Using Agricultural Surpluses or Coun- -- terpart Funds for the Initial Crop -- Insurance Reserve -- 6. Should Crop Insurance Reserve Be -- Used for Purposes Other than Paying -- Indemnities? -- CHAPTER 11 Reinsurance -- 1. Definition and Purpose -- 2. Reinsurance of Agricultural Risks -- 2.1 Japan -- 2.2 Canada -- 2.3 Sri Lanka -- 2.4 United States -- 3. Scope of International Reinsurance of -- National Crop Insurance Systems -- 4. Role of Private International Reinsurers -- CHAPTER 12 Organization and Administration -- 1. Appropriate Crop Insurance Organi- -- zation-Primarily a Government -- responsibility -- 2. Actual Administrative Structure in Se- -- lected Countries -- 2.1 Japan -- 2.2 United States -- 2.3 Canada -- 3. Basic Organizational Set-up for Devel- -- oping Countries -- 3.1 Central Organization -- 3.2 State of Provincial Administration -- 3.3 District Administration -- 3.4 Local Agencies -- 3.5 Possible Role of Local Cooperatives -- CHAPTER 13 Financing Crop Insurance Schemes -- 1. General Principles -- 2. Practices in Selected Countries -- 2.1 United States -- 2.2 Japan -- 2.3 Comparative Costs in the Unites States -- and Japan -- 2.4 Canada -- CHAPTER 14 Some Practical Hints on Financing Crop -- Insurance Particularly for Beginners -- Annex A Tables 1-7: FCIC, USDA County Actuarial -- Tables -- Annex B Agrarian Service Centre Area Based -- Coverage -Premia Rate Structure, Paddy -- Insurance, Sri Lanka. -- Annex C Preface to the Manual on Crop Insurance for -- Developing Countries (Published by FAO, -- Rome, 1974) -- Annex D (1-6) Samples of Selected Crop Insurance En- -- dorsements and Policies, FCIC, USDA. -- (7) Sample of a Crop Insurance Policy, Sri -- Lanka.".
2002283749 extent "xvi, 162 p. :".
2002283749 identifier "1578080282".
2002283749 identifier 2002283749.html.
2002283749 issued "1998".
2002283749 issued "1998.".
2002283749 language "eng".
2002283749 publisher "Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers, Inc.,".
2002283749 spatial "Developing countries.".
2002283749 subject "368.1/21/0097124 21".
2002283749 subject "Crop insurance Developing countries.".
2002283749 subject "HG9968 R39 1998".
2002283749 tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 Definition, Need and Benefits of Crop -- Insurance -- 1. What Is Insurance? -- 2. Functions of Insurance in Modern -- Society -- 3. Definition of Crop Insurance and Its -- Various Types -- 4. Need of Crop Insurance -- 5. Special Benefits of Crop Insurance -- 6. Insurance, Relief and Grants -- CHAPTER 2 Approaches to Crop Insurance -- 1. Philosophical Approach -- 2. Operational Approaches -- 3. Some Preliminary Observations -- CHAPTER 3 Problems and Difficulties -- 1. Basic Problems -- 1.1 Widespread Lack of Knowledge -- 1.2 Nature of Agriculture -- 1.3 Special Nature of Insurance of Crops -- 2. Operational Problems -- 2.1 Lack of Basic Data -- 2.2 Variety of Agricultural Practices -- 2.3 Existing Land Tenure and Land Record -- Systems -- 2.4 General Ignorance and Poverty of -- Farmers -- 2.5 Lack of Trained Personnel and Facilities -- for Study and Training -- 2.6 Lack of Adequate Infrastructure -- 2.7 Limited Financial Resources -- 3. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 Main Principles of Crop Insurance Appro- -- priate for Newly Developing Countries -- CHAPTER 5 Main Features of Crop Insurance Con- -- tract -- 1. Insurance of Crop Yield -- 2. Crops to Be Insured -- 3. Areas to Be Insured -- 4. Hazards to Be Covered -- 5. Duration of Cover -- 6. Eligibility for Insurance -- 7. Voluntary or Compulsory Insurance -- 8. Term of Insurance -- 9. Acreage Reports -- 10. Replanting of Crop and Release of -- Acreage -- 11. Quality Protection -- 12. Assignment to Creditors -- 13. Transfer of Interest -- 14. Voidance of Contract -- 15. Responsibility of the Insured -- CHAPTER 6 Essential Components of Multi-Risk Crop -- Insurance: Determination of Coverage -- 1. Special Nature of Crop Insurance Cover -- 2. Unit of Insurance-Area Basis or -- Individual Basis -- 3. Some Useful Guidelines -- 4. Determination of Insurance Cover or the -- Amount of Protection -- 5. Insurance Cover to Vary with Stages of -- Crop Production -- 6. Minimum Loss Exclusion or Deductible -- Clause -- 7. Justification of Limited Insurance Cover -- 8. Principal Factors Determining the Insur- -- ance Cover -- 9. Methods of determining Insurance Cover -- in Selected Countries -- 10. Crop-Loan Insurance Cover -- 11. Some Examples of Insurance Cover -- CHAPTER 7 Actuarial Methods: Determination of -- Premiums -- 1. Marriage Between Mutual Aid and -- Actuarial Technique -- 2. Meaning of Actuarial Techniques -- 3. Determination of Net Premium: Key to -- Actuarial Technique -- 4. Sharing of Premiums between Govern- -- ment, Farmers and Credit Agencies -- CHAPTER 8 Examples of Premiums and Premium -- Payment -- 1. Examples of Net Premiums -- 2. Premium Payment -- 2.1 Allocation of Premiums -- 2.2 Notification of Premiums -- 2.3 Due Date of Premium -- 2.4 Manner of Premium Payment -- 2.5 Recovery of Premiums -- 2.6 District-wise Adjustment of Premiums -- 2.7 Rebate and Discount of Premium -- CHAPTER 9 Loss Adjustment and Calculation of -- Indemnities -- 1. Loss Adjustment -- 1.1 Method of Loss Adjustment -- 1.2 Computation of Losses -- 1.3 Unit of Loss Adjustment -- 2. Calculation of Indemnities -- CHAPTER 10 Crop Insurance Reserve -- 1. Importance of Insurance Reserve -- 2. Need of Initial Reserve for Crop -- Insurance -- 3. Appropriate Size of Insurance Reserve -- 4. Reserve in Kind and Cash -- 5. Using Agricultural Surpluses or Coun- -- terpart Funds for the Initial Crop -- Insurance Reserve -- 6. Should Crop Insurance Reserve Be -- Used for Purposes Other than Paying -- Indemnities? -- CHAPTER 11 Reinsurance -- 1. Definition and Purpose -- 2. Reinsurance of Agricultural Risks -- 2.1 Japan -- 2.2 Canada -- 2.3 Sri Lanka -- 2.4 United States -- 3. Scope of International Reinsurance of -- National Crop Insurance Systems -- 4. Role of Private International Reinsurers -- CHAPTER 12 Organization and Administration -- 1. Appropriate Crop Insurance Organi- -- zation-Primarily a Government -- responsibility -- 2. Actual Administrative Structure in Se- -- lected Countries -- 2.1 Japan -- 2.2 United States -- 2.3 Canada -- 3. Basic Organizational Set-up for Devel- -- oping Countries -- 3.1 Central Organization -- 3.2 State of Provincial Administration -- 3.3 District Administration -- 3.4 Local Agencies -- 3.5 Possible Role of Local Cooperatives -- CHAPTER 13 Financing Crop Insurance Schemes -- 1. General Principles -- 2. Practices in Selected Countries -- 2.1 United States -- 2.2 Japan -- 2.3 Comparative Costs in the Unites States -- and Japan -- 2.4 Canada -- CHAPTER 14 Some Practical Hints on Financing Crop -- Insurance Particularly for Beginners -- Annex A Tables 1-7: FCIC, USDA County Actuarial -- Tables -- Annex B Agrarian Service Centre Area Based -- Coverage -Premia Rate Structure, Paddy -- Insurance, Sri Lanka. -- Annex C Preface to the Manual on Crop Insurance for -- Developing Countries (Published by FAO, -- Rome, 1974) -- Annex D (1-6) Samples of Selected Crop Insurance En- -- dorsements and Policies, FCIC, USDA. -- (7) Sample of a Crop Insurance Policy, Sri -- Lanka.".
2002283749 title "A practical guide to multi-risk crop insurance for developing countries / P.K. Ray.".
2002283749 type "text".