Over the last years, the federal government has been stimulating the crop insurance market through a few measures that aim to increase the demand and support insurance companies to offer their products. One of these measures was the Insurance Premium Subsidy Program (PSP) that registered an increase since the beginning of the program. However, this expressive growth has been concentrating only in the Paraná state. This article states that one of the main obstacles to expand the agricultural insurance to other states is not restricted only to the relative risk, but to the inexistence of a consolidated database in several cities.
crop insurance; relative risk; information; public policies
