International seminar on agriculture risk mitigation kicks off in Dhaka
| DHAKA, May 14 (NsNewsWire) — A two-day international seminar on “Financial Protection towards Agriculture Risk Mitigation in Bangladesh” was opened in capital Dhaka on Sunday,reports Xinhua. The event is sponsored by an Asian Development Bank technical assistance project titled “weather index-based crop insurance.” Experts from Bangladesh, India, Spain, and Turkey joined the working sessions discussing technical aspects and tools on safety nets and risks mitigation in agriculture, said the Manila-based lender in a statement. The seminar discussed managing risks for financing agriculture value chains, global approaches to weather risk mitigation, lessons from weather-index based crop insurance pilot, options for financial protection for enhanced resilience, and the way forward, it said. Officials, donors, and local and international experts who attended the event reiterated their commitment to continue supporting efforts to strengthen the financial resilience of the agriculture sector, mainly the smallholder farmers, it added. Enditem |