Agricultural insurance and natural disasters: an assessment of the financial performance of the Turkish agricultural insurance pool (TARSIM) through selected criteria

Year 2023, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 126 - 136, 30.12.2023

Hasan Arda Burhan

https://doi.org/10.58588/aru-jfeas.1393228

Abstract

Agriculture is closely linked to weather and climatic conditions, rendering it vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. While such risks are inherent in agricultural activities, the escalation in both frequency and severity of these disasters in recent years can be attributed to the interplay of climate change, global warming, and ecological degradation. In this context, agricultural insurances offer financial assistance to farmers by extending insurance coverage to mitigate potential production failures stemming from these hazards. In Turkey, the insurances included in the Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSIM) range from crop, greenhouse, and poultry, to drought yield insurances. In this study, the financial performance of TARSIM during the period 2018-2022 has been evaluated by using Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) objective criteria weighting with Evaluation based on Distance from Average Solution (EDAS) and Multi-Atributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis (MAIRCA) multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The analyses included seven financial ratios based on eight indicators, and as a result, the criterion with the highest weight was determined as the Total Premiums Received-Equity ratio, and by considering all utilized methods, the first two years with the best financial performance was identified as 2018 and 2019.

Keywords

Natural Disasters, Agricultural Insurance, Agricultural Insurance Pool (TARSIM), Financial Performance, Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Tarım sigortaları ve doğal afetler: Türk tarım sigortaları havuzu (TARSİM) finansal performansının seçili kriterler dâhilinde değerlendirilmesi

Abstract

Tarım, hava ve iklim koşullarına sıkı bir şekilde bağlı olması nedeniyle doğal afetlerin etkisine karşı savunmasızdır. Bu tür riskler tarımsal faaliyetlere içkin olsa da, son yıllarda bu felaketlerin hem sıklığında hem de şiddetinde yaşanan artışın, iklim değişikliği, küresel ısınma ve ekolojik bozulma arasındaki etkileşimle ilgili olduğu söylenebilir. Bu bağlamda, tarım sigortaları, çeşitli risklerden kaynaklanan potansiyel üretim başarısızlıklarını hafifletmek için tarım sektöründe çalışanlara finansal yardım sunarak potansiyel verim kayıplarına karşı güvence sağlamaktadır. Türkiye'de geleneksel tarım sigortasının kökleri 1957'ye kadar uzanmakta olup, 2005 yılında Tarım Sigortaları Havuzu’nun (TARSİM) kurulmasıyla önemli bir gelişme yaşanmıştır. Sigorta çeşitleri, bitkisel ürün, sera ve kümes hayvanlarından kuraklık verim sigortalarına kadar uzanmaktadır. Finansal performans değerlendirmelerinin sorunları tespit etmek ve yenilikçi stratejiler geliştirmek amacıyla kullanılmasına paralel olarak bu çalışmada, TARSİM'ın 2018-2022 dönemindeki finansal performansı, CRITIC objektif kriter ağırlıklandırma ile EDAS ve MAIRCA Çok Kriterli Karar Verme (ÇKKV) teknikleri kullanılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Model, bilançolar ve gelir tablolarından elde edilen sekiz göstergeye dayalı yedi finansal oran içermekte olup, elde edilen sonuçlara göre, en yüksek ağırlığa sahip kriterin Alınan Prim-Öz Sermaye oranı; ele alınan dönem dahilinde en iyi finansal performansa sahip ilk iki yılın ise 2018 ve 2019 yılları olduğu tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Doğal Afetler, Tarım Sigortası, Tarım Sigortaları Havuzu (TARSİM), Finansal Performans, Çok Kriterli Karar Verme

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