Part II: Insurance 



ARGENTINA. 



HAH. INSURANCE IN ARGENTINA. 



SOURCE: 



SrruACi6N de las sociedades de seguros contr.\ geanizo existentes en el pais : AfJo agri - 

 COLA 1912-1913 {Situation of the Hail Insurance Societies of the Country: A ■^ricultural Year 

 1912-1913) Report forwarded to the International Institute of Agriculture by the Minis- 

 ter of Agriculture of the Repubhc. 



Since its foundation the International Institute of Agriculture has been 

 giving its attention to the important problem of hail insurance : in accord - 

 dance with a vote of the General Assembly of 1911, it undertook an 

 enquiry in 191 2 into the organization and development of this form of 

 agricultural thrift in the States adhering to it, with a view to the estab- 

 lishment of a uniform meteorological and statistical service, as a first step 

 towards an international agreement in regard to hail insurance. 



In reply to a special list of questions, the Argentine Agricultural De- 

 partment has sent the International Institute of Agriculture an interesting 

 report containing statistics showing the progress of this branch of insurance 

 in the Republic : we think it well to reproduce the most important points 

 of it for our readers. 



There are 31 hail insurance societies at work in Argentina: of these 

 19 are societies limited by shares, 3 are co-operative societies Umited by 

 shares, and 9 Hmited mutual co-operative societies (i). 



The Department was not supplied by aU the societies with the data 

 necessary for the compilation of an accurate return : 5 of them did not 



(i) For the mutual hail si^cieties, see our article on the "Cooperative Movement ia 



Argentine Agricultxu-e ", published in the number of this Bu lletiu for December, 1913. 



