Insurance companies should consider group insurance: Farmers

Staff Writer

Insurance companies in Zimbabwe should consider offering group insurance to smallholder farmers to increase uptake of agricultural insurance, Insurance 24 has learned.

This comes as agricultural insurance uptake, especially for smallholder farmers, has remained low despite concerted efforts to increase it.

Farming activities are

Pensions compensation set for March 2024 delayed further

Staff Writer

The Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) says actual payments under the pre-2009 compensation schemes, which were initially scheduled to commence in March 2024, will not be possible as the assessed compensation schemes are not compliant.

Ipec, in a notice to the public, said it received and assessed 1,249 complete submissions