Comparison and Reference on Policy Support System of Agricultural Insurance

Due to public goods' nature of agricultural insurance and agriculture's important position in the national economy,the development of agricultural insurance needs the support of the government.Most of the world have established better support system for agricultural insurance policy.China's agricultural insurance development lags behind;the fundamental reason is the policy of the government's support system is not perfect.In this paper a comparation between China and foreign on the methods,scope,criteria and level of government support agricultural insurance is analyzed,to sum up the experience of foreign development of agricultural insurance.It also finds the problems of China's agricultural insurance in government support,and proposes the support system of agricultural insurance development suited to China's basic national conditions.