Index based crop insurance

Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 193-203

  Rao, Kolli N ^a  

^a Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AIC)   (India)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Basis risk; Biomass index; Moral hazard; Production index; Weather index; Yield index

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA; CICER ARIETINUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78650763623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22107843     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaspro.2010.09.024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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