The New Brunswick Crop Insurance Commission has launched a new insurance plan offering coverage to commercial vegetable growers.
The commission’s fresh market vegetable acreage loss insurance plan will provide coverage for total losses of acreage of eligible fresh-market vegetable crops due to insured perils, the province said in a release Thursday.
The plan, which will run through the federal/provincial AgriInsurance program, is open to commercial producers who grow two or more hectares (five or more acres) of vegetables for the fresh or wholesale market. Eligible crops under this plan include direct seeded and transplanted acreage, the province said.
Insurance is based on three vegetable categories, with separate insured values per acre, the province said. Vegetable crops accepted into the program will also have to be adequately irrigated, in order to be covered for drought.
Producers will need to complete an application form by May 1 in order to be eligible, the province said.
