Agritask, the developer of a holistic agronomic operations platform, has partnered with Hollard Mozambique to expand its digital agricultural insurance platform in South Africa.
The partnership aims to offer digital solutions to local stakeholders who provide crop insurance for farmers in their respective value chains.
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The platform will form a village-based geographical clusterisation for the whole country. While enabling the use of high-resolution data at a national scale, it will also integrate additional data layers used to facilitate risk assessment.
Insured farms will be registered and mapped onto the platform. They will be offered the real-time tracking of relevant parameters at each plot and at the portfolio level.
Agritask Insurance head and managing director Dr. Rom Aviv said: “An operations platform is the prerequisite to implement a rigorous agricultural insurance scheme at scale. Data requirement in crop insurance is highly complex and multidisciplinary, ranging from agronomy, climate and geospatial, to finance and administration.
“Creating a robust digital infrastructure can greatly enhance the existing methods. For countries prone to natural disasters such as Mozambique, it can also serve to strengthen preparedness and rehabilitation efforts, such as by generating alerts for the relevant farmers to take precaution.”
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By GlobalDataThe partnership will include data capturing tens of thousands of smallholders, with plans to later scale up it by ten-fold.
Hollard Agricultural Insurance managing director Israel Muchena said: “As a company, we continue to work hard to improve climate resilience and food security for hundreds of thousands of smallholders in Africa.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Agritask that brings enabling technologies and shares the same goals as ours. At Hollard, we take pride in innovating and delivering improved insurance solutions for our clients.”
